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Show ; GAS EXPLOSION ILLEDlflBS RESCUERS FIND PASSAGES ARE CL08ED, ENTOMBING 19 MEN. FATE IS UNKNOWN Miners Believed Caught At Shaft; Rescue Car Sent Out By Special Train From Charleston To Scene Of Disaster Eccles, W. Va. The known dead in the mine explosion here was increased to ten as rescue workers broke through a barrier of debris and found nine additional bodies near the shart bottom of the Crab Orchard Improvement Improve-ment company's No. 5 mine. Workers redoubled their efforts to press their way into the damaged workings, hoping hop-ing to find alive some of the twenty other miners who were entombed by the blast. Ecclea, W. Va. With the lives of nineteen entombed miners at stake, rescue workers, headed by state and federal officials fought early to pene-! pene-! trate a barrier of debris near the bottom bot-tom of the shaft of a mine of the Crab Orchard Improvement company near here, where an explosion took toll of at least ten lives besides walling in the nineteen whose fate was yet to be determined. The explosion, felt a few minutes before 7 o'clock, p. m., last Tuesday, I not only closed entry to mine No. 5 ' in which the men were entombed, but sent a wave of death-dealing gas through a connecting passage into mine No. 6, whose shaft was a quarter nf fl mil awav Lowell Goin3, negro loader, was killed by the fumes and several others suffered ill effects and were taken to the Beckley hospital for treatment, but of the forty in the No. 6 workings all except Goins were brought out alive. Fore more than five hours two of these men were listed as missing, but rescue workers pushing through the entries found one where he had hidden behind a trap door. |