Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-12-03 | Page 6 | Nineteen Die in Mine

NINETEEN DIE IN MINE. Seventy-five Men at Work When Explosion Ex-plosion Occurs. Boomer, W. Va. Nineteen men are known to have been killed by an explosion ex-plosion in mine No. 2 of the Boomer Coal & Coke company here -Tuesday. Thirty miners were brought to the surface, and rescuers have hopes that others will be found alive. Ten miners were rescued from a sub-entrance to the mine in a semiconscious semi-conscious condition. When revived they said they had seen many men, apparently dead, a short distance from the point where the explosion occurred. oc-curred. John Bertalle, one of the rescued miners, said that seventy-five men were working near the place where the explosion occurred. He was badly bad-ly bruised by flying debris, but was able to make his way to a sub-entrance.