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Show I "1 Many Men Horribly Mangled In a Coal Mine Explosion M and Hundreds Shriek and Faint When Bodies Are Seen I " lose Lives in Terrific' Explosion and mi .. MANY ARE INJURED; 3r..i-i;i;; I , tLi-"-:. : I !g Sickening Sights as Mangled Bodies Are : : Brought Out. tin- I I e Hr ea"Br W1LKESB RRE. r.i June ."- Rev-r"j Rev-r"j emy-right nun lu-t their lives in the Dtnj ' Baltimore No 2 lunm l of ihc Dela irest b ware and Hudson Coal company ex-I ex-I plosion and fire todav and 31 were) Injured according to al 1st given out' forth by Hi? com pan.'. uiu.-inN ai noon today ; ert Sipj portv-ono bodi'e- have been identi-fler identi-fler 'r .n:.i :T r. main t:ri"l.-mii'f ! Tie inwhEil , ripanvV injured list is not complete' irt? ard jt is certain , uat the. number of "" f injured will reach .ibout forty. j UTLKESBARRE. Pa., June 5 Seventy-live to one hundred mine workers i vcrf kill- d anil main injured a I the in Ealtin.o:- Nn. . i ume I of i h-- .- l ; , -Tare and Hudson company, near here. W early todav A ear of black powder pttached to a train of cars on which Kbe men were riding to their chambers in ihe mint-, exploded Thr trollev w in broke a nd - pn rk.-irriwa rk.-irriwa 'rrau-d the powder lniy ?! i Most of the dead were caused by A I&M fire and suffocation carcai Iden'ineation of ihe bodies is almost fcldla impossible M;in of them an- charred I'otUfa beyond recognition The limbs of B are midc. the In ads of others, are missinq. t & 3n a. ni it was said between 75 ! bis 13 Dd luO were killed or had died from ?" OL- ;rj . '"s:; Death List Growing. Th1 dfri,h llM is rapidly growing A-! A-! lbp bodies are remo ed from the mine J" llvin na dead the;, an piled un tht lUiP green about the colliery Many of the itieMl inlnr.a K,.,..1 I... . , . Tr.. 21 i dr(!'ds ui IIK'n' wr,non "r"1 ehildrer f' Sa'ifTfd aboui mi ru-l Shri Lin- idtel ' 8ad tTyir'-' M" li!-d i ! blanket.-, ; from too in. n W ormm fainted mm . V- , lo" their nerve and children inn a v. av W' :n fright. It hag been established that Ihe ex-HELf ex-HELf Plosion was causr d hy a break in the bcdl "?lpy Wlr''- T,li; 'wir" Pained conta t lad ( wl,h the powder ;,,id sparks did the B' left. 0rfl: Th dfath list was made larce bv ntal e flaru' and the sulphur lumej v K fhich filled the tunnel. Reecuera got into the mine with K0?e and played stream.- of water OD be names, hlle ihe were doin.f: ( tbig ihf. rn,,s of Lhr (J,.jn and the jn IJVed were heard above thr roar of the lamp?. Today's accident is a direct viola-1 viola-1 'ion of thi law Permission was cr. 1 r" 'he men i,, , ,u. ,rip ,0 Place of xvork and a special train was IProMded. I 11 is a violation of the mine law to rr powder (jn a train. The law in 'peclfic thai powder and other explo-I explo-I 'os rnusi be transported alone. I j Pr u,rr' a dozen ketrs of powder 1 Bodice Badly Burned. Some of the first bodies brought n rom the tunnel were burning when y cached 'ho surface t'lothes M(l been burned away and the fl 9b In8 rasilnK from the intense heal aier was poured on these to put nut j t?e(Ilr" 1' waS such siphts as this lat made brave hearts turn eick. I.., 10 30 o'clock the company offl-I offl-I announced thai se. ntv men were ) in nnd ,hal th"'tv five were at the "ospitab. It was fctated that th death lls' will Increase. ! thlh01nas I)ouhf,rtv. a miner, one of survivors, was thrown out of a cai 1m , bla5t ''in, eaM'd hun.-ieir bv Jmpinc inio a ditch. He said ; ' fJ weni rlfJ1DP along about fiftj v j 'D tbe tunnel. There was a blind-i blind-i L 1 V,,1S 'hrown from the car. I saw ihe water and hurled myself t- j , Bodies were all about. Some i h X : wre (lf ad, others were cry- S- The flames v,ere terrific. TlK-y triea" Vabouf- were n a vr-ritable I tali '-) In,in rouri possibly hope to 111 (jjDe wVith his life unless he got. In 'II 9t ate-r, burled his fare and rolled i A6oann 0VPr 'n J 1 fli,i There was 'I. j'lWlrtrl11 'he car There were about 'BKii 'and besides there were kegs ' S l9tlCd b;' th" u"-n 0f course 1 do i now twhal Bet them off but I be |