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Show of death from their injuries, and ten more are In the Westmoreland hospital, hos-pital, with serious burns, as a penalty pen-alty for somebody's carelessness or homebody's vengeance, while miner.-' wire holding a Christinas celebration at Keystone Shaft, near here late last night. The accident occurred at the homo of Michael Wilding, while he wa.i entertaining en-tertaining it party of about twenty-live twenty-live men and women, some of whom haj cmue from Youngstovvn, Chlo, to teel; work In the mines. It Is belieed that one of the men. while a dance was In progress, thrw a cigarette butt carelessly under the i talrway. Twenty-five pounds of mln-Ire mln-Ire powder are said to have been stored stor-ed there In an open can. Flames j from the powder shot through th.? j houre and the smoke blinded the dane- I ers as they tried to escape. The clothing of nearly all the dancers danc-ers took flro from the explosion and. although the room was burned and blackened, the house was not seriously damaged. Men In adjoining house; rushed In with blanket3 and wrapped them about the burning women, sav lng many from death oo 00 r.:AUY KILLED AND INJURED WHILE AT A DANCE Oreenhurg. I'c, It -. ;r,. Trr'- I'ertoc are dead, el-l.t are In Jar.r . |