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Show COAL MINERS ENTOMBED. Explosion Causes Loss of Over a Hundred Lives. Hinton. V. Ya. Rescue parties late Tuesday night had brought out alive ten men and recovered the bodies of nine victims of the explosion which entombed 1 S2 miners in the Layland mines of the New Kiver and Pocahontas Pocahon-tas Consolidated Coal company, several sev-eral miles from Quinnimont. Kven outside the mines evidences were numerous that the force of the explosion was terrific. A. B. Cooper, who waa delivering groceries to a house within seventy-five seventy-five yards of the mine entrance, was blown against a telegraph pole and killed. |