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Show FATAL EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE Wllburton, Okta. Thirteen mlncri were entombed nnd probably killed by an explosion at 1 20 Sunday momloe In Iho Mlsosurl, Kansas & Texas Coil company mlno No, 19, four miles west of here There Is llttlo prospect of their bodlo being rccovored for several sev-eral days, Tho men went Into, tho shaft nt midnight Korcman wluas Hny of the shift that left the mfje it Ttood fonrtitu5n" an'd a gas expfn was hardly probable His shift frff a shot banging which tho now shirt may havo fired It la suggested, from thq frrco of tho explosion, which could bo heard for mile around and which toro heavy timber asldo and piled tons of dirt Into tho shaft, that a bad thot had tct oft somo dynnmlto which had been stored conveniently for work In pushing tho entries. Tho shaft Is 350 feet deep, and It was 300 feet to Ihe placo whero tho men wore work Ing, Tho men wero supplied with air tannM from the shaft and by means ot compressed air lull's. H la the general gen-eral opinion that the, air plpo was burst by tho oxploslon. |