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Show EIGHTEEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION Five of Victims Met Death in Effort to Save Their Comrades. Tower City, Pa, Eighteen men were killed and two seriously injured in-jured Saturday in a double explosion in the east Brookside mine of the Philadelphia & Reading Iron company caused, it is believed, by dynamite and gas. Thirteen men died in the first explosion ex-plosion and five went to their death in the second blast, after an heroic ' attempt to rescue the first victims. One of the rescuers escaped. |