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Show ARY URGES TAKING TARIFF FROM POLITICS I ELEVEN KILLED I IN MINE; EIGHT I BLOWNTO BITS I Searchers Still Seek Bodies of Ten in Alabama Colliery BLAST IS MYSTER7 Story Never Will Be Known as All Workers Are Dead Associated Press dispatches todaj record the death of 19 persons in ex. plosions. The first dispatch announced the death of 11 miners in a mine neat Birmingham. Ala Then came a dispatch from Penn-sylvania Penn-sylvania announcing that eight men were blown to pieces In an explosion at a chemical factory. 11 MINERS DEAD BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. May 26 Eleven miners were killed last nisht In an explosion in Aemar No. 3 mine of the Alabama fuel and Iron com-pany, com-pany, St Clair county, acoording ta reports received today at the Binning-ham Binning-ham station of the Bureau of Mlm - Eighty-two men were working in tho mine at the time of tho "xploslob, but all except the eleven who were killed, escaped Ten of the bod(ua have not been recovered The explOr slon was attributed to mlm" gas It 'caused little damage to the mine. 1 k m 1 IKE KILLED S1NNA.LH iNING. fa.. May 26. . By the Associated Press) Eight mer. were Instantly killed and three other. slightly hurt In a series of explosions which today blew to pieces three load-Ing load-Ing houses and another building at the Orasselll Chemical company plant here. The cause of the explosions wll' lj probably never be determined as all the men in the building were where the powder first ignited were killed The plant Is built in the hills just back of the village The concussion was so great that buildings here were Ki -I 1 damaged. The first explosion occurred In a packing house on the edge of the plant Immediately workmen 111 the othOr buildings ran for their lives, and nono too soon, for they hoJH scarcely reached places of safety when two other explosions followed. Much blasting powder went up in the explosion 00 |