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Show EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR U. S. Steel Plant the Scene of a Horrible Accident; Victims Are Burned to Death by Hot Slag PlttBburg, April E Three men w ere burned to death and two others probably prob-ably fatally injured In an explosion nt the Homestead work of the I'nl-ted I'nl-ted States Steel corporation this morning. Twenty men were at work In that section of the plant where slag from tlu- furnaces is broken up when, from some cause, at prrsent unknown, an explosion occured. Men were tossed toss-ed about in all directions. ?nme of them beinc thrown beyond the range of the living metal The three who were killed were buried under a mas of slag and burned be-yond recognition. recogni-tion. The names of the dead and in jured will not be known until the company's roll books have been examined. ex-amined. One of the Injured men died In the hospital this afternoon, bringing the death list to four 00 |