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Show TWELVE KILLED tit run? AP1AM in LArLUdiufl Birmingham. Ada., Oct 5 Twelv men are known to be dead and twelvr injured as a result of an explosion today In the Mulga mines of the Woodward Iron company, IS miles northwest of Birmingham Four of the miners killed were white and tho remainder were ne groes. Rescue gangs were organized lm mediately after the explosion but ail of the bodies have not been recovered. recov-ered. Officials of tho Woodward Iron company declare the explosion was purely local, resulting from a pocket of gas been uncovered Mine machinery- was not badly dam aged. Several miners still were missing miss-ing late today and it was thought the number of dead might be increased. B. Sutton in charge of the federal rescue car in this district, is at Mulga, Mul-ga, aiding In the rescue work, oo |