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Show to aid in the effort to save their loved ones who might still be alive within. Mine Foreman Bowers, who was near the entrance, was. blown from his feet, but managed to crawl out safely, as also did Robert Smith, a miner.- A rescue party rushed into the smoking mines and tried to rescue a miner named Halliday, who was hurl-, ed back by the blast They were driven back by the deadly fumes of the after gases and were compelled to leave him to his fate. From CO to SO men were thought to be ln the section of the mlno affected. Tne debrl3 from the explosion of two w eeks ago had not been cleared away and 20 men were engaged ln tills work. Nineteen contract miners with their crews were at work In a new quarry and It is feared all these were lost. The explosion was ln a different part of the mine from that of two weeks ago.. Since that catastrophe the mine has bcem inspected by government officials and by the most experienced men in the region and all, it Is paid, expressed the opinion that It was safe. At 10 o'clock tonight. t-n bodies had been taken from Lick Branch mine. None was Identified. A late estimate of the number of men entombed Is more than 100. That all of that number are dead there can be no doubt The Are In the mine and tho deadly gasos preclude any chanco cl rescuing any. The mala entry of the mine is four miles long. Debris was blown from both entries. The fans that furnish the fresh air were not disabled. i On the Tug river side, four miles j from the main entrance, the smoke and flames rushed from the entrance, I burning the twigs and small limbs ! from the trees that grew near. The minor is owned by the Pocahontas Consolidated Colliers company. In Lick Branch Colliery; Fifty Killed in Same Mine Two weeks Ago. Bluoflolds, W. Va, Jan. 12. An explosion ex-plosion of gas in the Lick Branch colliery col-liery today snuffed out between CO and SO lives. In these samo mines two weeks ago to a day, 50 miners were killed by a similar explosion. A sound like thunder reverberating aloug the miles of corridors and air passages crowded with those who worked ln the mine. From the mlno mouth belched forth a cloud of flame, soot, dust and debris, heavy timber, broken mine cars and even a massive motor. Terrorized women and children chil-dren rushed to the mouth of the mlno and implored those there ty allow them |