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Show MANY KILLED IfJ j FOiDJUiiE MANY RUSHED TO HOSPITAL IN IN A SERIOUS CONDITION WHEN WALL FALLS Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blast Traps Twenty-One Men; Section of Mine Walled Off to Exterminate Fire New Britain, Conn. Six men are known to have been crushed to death, eleven others, some in a serious condition, con-dition, are at the New Britain general hospital and ten are unaccounted for as tho result of the collapse o a brick wall at the foundry of North & Judd Manufacturing company on East Main street. The dead were not identified. I 11 was first thought that the wall j was razed by an explosion in the foun-j foun-j dl'y- This theory was abandoned and J now It is believed that the building I caved in from the weight of snow on i j the roof. Pittsburg, Pa. Death has again I claimed its grim toll in a mine disas-I disas-I ter, 19 men are dead following an explosion ex-plosion which wrecked right butt No. 1 of the Pittsburg Terminal comnanv's mine No. 4 at Horning. Trapped in a passageway 400 feet from the mine entrance, only two of j 21 men at work fighting a blaze in the mine escaped alive. They are Edward Ed-ward Davis, a mine foreman and Louis Powell. The section of butt No. 15, where the explosion occurred, was walled off in an effort to exterminate the fires. Sixteen bodies remained within this section, while only three have been recovered. The explosion was the aftermath of a fire in the mine which broke out when a cutting machine broke through a clay vein into a gas pocket. The 21 men went into butt No. 15, 4000 feet from the mine entrance, to' fight the blaze. |