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Show DYNAMITE WRECKS SMALL COAL MINE PITTSBURG, Ps . May 12. The Peterman mine in Penn township. near here, was blown up early today by a heavy )uu c- of ilnamlte which threw stones almost a quarter of a mile .-'iiriff Robert W Woodslde wtth a big. force of deputies, left Pittsburg ehort-Ij ehort-Ij after 0 a m . for the mine, where. It ins reported, a lody of coal strike sympathisers had collected The farmhouse of George Weasel almost a quarter of a mile away, was1 damaged by the blast. Mr Pefermarti owner" of the mine., said thai shortlj before fiabreak the men had planted a heaw charge of dynamite In the mouth of the drift completely destroying it No one was hurl by the explosion Sheriff Woodside refused all Information Infor-mation concerning the explosion The Peterman mine ordinarily em-plo:: em-plo:: 25 men. but had been closed Bince the strike was called. I |