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Show Blast Exacts Toll of Lives Clymer, Pa. Forty-six miners were believed to have been killed here last Thursday in an explosion which wrecked the interior of Clymer No. 1 mine of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal corporation. Four men escaped alive and are in a hospital seriously injured. injur-ed. Practically all hope for the entombed en-tombed men was abandoned after Dr. W. E. Dodd, company physician, explored ex-plored the mine as far as possible. He said the blast caused widespread devastation de-vastation and that the tunnels were so heavy with gas that no human could survive. He said that within the j slope, under piles of rock, he saw the j bodies of six .miners. Some were bad- i ly mangled, while others, he said, bore no marks, indicating that they were j victims ,of gas. |