Show 86 ONE M N DIE IN MINE EXPLOSION CATCHES MINERS underground WORKINGS OF MINE writer who entered th shambles chambles ambles tells of thirty one dead at one point biggest mining disaster in oklahoman Okla homas history Iii story wilburton Wl lburton okla the degnan mc connell mine no 21 thursday reluctantly gave back bach two lives tw of the miners originally entombed in it after veteran miners and rescue experts had declared there was no possibility lity of any ot of the entrapped miners being alive cecil mckinney white and burl hollis II ollis negro came out weak and trembling from twenty three hours imprisonment in the mine mckinney mccunney crawled out before I 1 an amazed crowd of nearly 2000 spectators and two hours later hollis was dragged out and restored to consciousness by a this makes ten of the miners to come out alive after their rendezvous with death the death toll is placed at 91 the maw of the mine y yielded abed tour four teen dead bodies by noon the rescue of two men thursday added zest to the rescuers and they renewed their work in hope ol of finding more alive four companions in mckinneys McKin tunnel were killed by the tha blast but by some miracle mckinney was not even knocked unconscious without a light the miner crawled blindly through the dimp damp tilled filled and death strewn for twenty three hours just before he came out he crawled over the dead body of his father ed doyle boyle state mine inspector Is on the ground to conduct a state probe of the disaster some people here believed that the accident was caused by one of 0 the fire bosses who knew of a gas pocket in the mine the theory is that the tire fire boss said the mine was sate safe believing that he could clear the gas pocket before the miners came in but that one of the miners came in before the scheduled time and walked into the pocket with his open light |