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Show 400 KILLED BY TERRIBLE BLAST IN CHINESE MINE PEKING, Oct. 10. An explosion explo-sion and fire in the Tong-Chan coal mine in Ch.-Li province killed upward of four hundred Chinese laborers on Thursday , last, 'but news of the accident reached here only today. There were 119 survivorc An official report by the mining min-ing company places the dead at 422. The explosion occurred in the next to the lowest level, smoke causing most of the deaths. Grief-stricken crowds sur-, rounded the mine, carryi.1 off the victims os they were brought to the surface Special , religious services in honor of the victims have been arranged. |