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Show I ! ELEVEN MINERS . j KILLEDJN MINE Explosion Late Wednesday " Afternoon Takes Lives of ' y. a Few Workers. $j Y SEVENTY-FIVE IN MINE i l- Ignited Gas Pocket on Prema- n'i ture Discharge of Powder , i Probable Cause. ; KNOXVILLE, Tonn., Dec, 20, : Eleven miners were killed in an ox-plosion ox-plosion at mine number three of the i ; Dour Coal and Coke company, Catoosa, near Nemo, Tonn., late Wednesday afternoon, according to word reaching here today. Sovonty-five were in the mine at the time. Whethor the explosion resulted 'from a gas pocket becoming ignited or from the premature discharge of a keg of powder in the mine is not known. |