Show N ITY ONE MEN OIE IN MINE EXPLOSION CAT CATCHES CHES MINERS underground WORKINGS OF MINE writer who entered shambles tells of thirty one dead at one point biggest mining disaster in oklahoman Okla homas history wilburton okla the degnan deenan M llo connell mine no 21 thursday reluctantly gave cave back bach two lives two more t f the tha miners originally entombed tn in it after veteran miners and rescue experts had declared there was no possibility sivility lity of any ol of the entrapped miners being alive cecil mckinney nolte and nd burl hollis negro neero came out weak and trembling from twenty three hours imprisonment in the mine mckinney crawled out before in amazed crowd of nearly 2000 spectators and two hours later hollis was dragged out and restored to conscious less a this makes ten ot of the miners to come out alive after their rend rendezvous ez with death the death toll Is placed at 91 the maw of the mine yielded fourteen dead bodies by noon the rescue f two men thursday added zest to the rescuers and they reri renewed ewed their work in hops hope of 0 finding more alive four companions in McKin McKinney 3 tunnel were killed hilled by the blast but by some miracle McKin mckinney hey was not even knocked unconscious without a light the miner crawled blindly through the damp filled and beath strewn tor for twenty three hours just before he came out lie ho crawled over the dead body ot of his father ed boyle state mine inspector is on the ground to conduct a state probe of the disaster some people here believed that the accident was caused by one ot of the fire bosses who knew of 0 a gas pocket in the mine the theory is that the tire fire boss said the mine was safe believing that he could clear the gas pocket before the miners came in but that one of the miners came in before the scheduled time and walked into the pocket his open light |