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Show OFFICIAL SAYS OUST CAUSEDJXPL0S10N Ienver. Colo.. Feb. 25 Over tccu-nmlaMon tccu-nmlaMon of d':st In room 5. A.-H of ibe Colorado Fuel and Jron company miue at Primero caused the explosion explo-sion which resulfd In 7S deaths, according ac-cording to ihe reports of State Mine inspector John D. Jones, made to Governor Shalroih todav. Had It not h.jen for ihe duat. says the rep,ri, the expleislort would hAe been con-ilned con-ilned to room 5 and would have been lirnl. with the chance of there not. being a' fatality. The great arro'int of dust that had been allowed to accumulate ac-cumulate was sulflclcnt to wreck the entire, mine and In this particular the mine owners and officials are found to have bc?n negligent. |