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Show MINER'S NEGLIGENCE CAUSE OF EXPLOSION Royalton, 111., Nov. 5. The explo-. sion which caused the death of fifty-two fifty-two men in the mine of the Franklin County Coal and Coke company near here, several weeks ago, was due to the negligence of a miner who crossed cross-ed the examiner's danger mark and ignited with his lantern the gas in a condemned entry. A report to this effect was made here today by a party of mine experts ex-perts who have completed an investigation inves-tigation into the causes of the accident. |