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Show 00MB HORROR I GRIPS LOVED I ONES AT SHAFT I I Terrific Explosion Trkeg Place in Workings Oi Coal Mine RESCUERS ORGANIZE .Slain Entry Blocked By Debris Near ! Mouth SP ANGLER, Pa.. Nov. 6. (By th H Associated Pr.s.) The first rescie party to enter the Reilly coal ininn , after the explosion this morning. r- lH ported at noon today that they h id , fl found three bodies and feared that i some. If not all of the other nin'.y il men entombed are dead. j SPANGLE R, Pa.. Nov. 6. By th H I Associate. l Press.) A terrific ex 1 plosion somewhere in the workings ir tho Reailly mine of the Roilly Coat i company here at 7:30 o'clock thu morning entombed between sO and miners who had gone to their worh gH scarcely half an hour before. Suxer-intendent Suxer-intendent O J. Flanagan at onci Organised a rescue party from employes em-ployes In the vicinity and fled to the The xtenl of the explosion has not been determined. It was nn-m.unced nn-m.unced at the company's ortice, but it was .said It was 'pretty bad " Mine re.seue cars were ordered BI Pittsburg and some poin. n II New York state, while news or th II explosion, spreading rapidly through II this region brought scores or m!ne:'s , eager and anxious to help in rescue (ml work. nl ICHMS MARRIED. j Most or them who went to work i this morning were married. The news of the explosion brought their wives H I 1 hil.lr--n to the shaft mouth. UH d in dumb horror. hi The shaft which is about two hun-dred hun-dred feet deep, was not damaged bv the explosion and the carre continued to operate, it was said by mm authorities that one of the mair. entries was blocked by falling debris 'VW obout 500 feel rrom the foot or the ,ll There Is a man-way wh!-h makes another entramo to the mine, but whether the entombed men had been cut off rrom it had not been de- jffl termlned. RR If I STEPS TAKEN PITTSBURG, Pa.. Nov C. Deputy Chief of Mines Frank Hall said today n receipt of news of the mine acci- KI dent at Spangler that steps for re-lief re-lief were under way and that tha State would conduct a thorough In- ml vest igat ion. i; 11 'h-i f i m ?R to KM 9". men are In the mine." he said. |