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Show EXPLOSION I KILLS MANY I Reports From the An- thraeite Mine at Tower ij City, Pa., Place Num- m$ ber of Dead as High p H as Thirty Checking m-js Off the Rolls Being 4 Made IP Pottsvllle, Pa. Aug. 2 t leasl KK thirty anthracite mine workers are IB$' believed to have been killed today In R':. ' an explosion of gas in the Fast Brook- B.V side mine of the Philadelphia & Read- wk'l' ing Coal & Iron company at Tower M'-'' City, twenty miles from here There W -V were two explosions. Seven bodies E. were recoered soon after the blast. K V: One of the men rescued alive estl- ifc I mated that there were thirty-six men & I at work when the accident occurred. W I The explosion was caused when men r driving a tunnel drilled into a large iB pocket of gas. jf- Three men badly burned were res- C cued but two of them are not ex- E pected to live. L Officials at headquarters of thd Fi Reading company hero are reticeut I? and beyond admitting that there was IB an explosion, said they knew nothing Ei of it It is reported that Superintend- flr ent Lawrence is among the dead in- Five colliery ambulances and all jfc the doctors in that region are at the oo m. |