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Show DOWN THE BLACK SHAFT Terrific Explosion in a Pennsylvania Coal Mine This Morning. . Fire-Damp, Ignited by a Naked Lamp, Will Result in Many a ; Collier's Death. The Count of Hamilton County Yet - Claimed by Republicans and Democrats. Horrible Casualty in 11 Coal mine. Wilkesbakbb, Pa,, October 21. A terrific explosion took place in No. 2 stope of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company at Plymouth, Ply-mouth, this morning. The greatest excite-, ment prevails there, as tbe stope is full of tyip.ti and hrttm. . flnn rfinnrt ban it that thft number killed will be large. As far as can be learned fifteen men are known to be fatally burned. . Latee. It. is now reported that of the fifteen men burned fourteen have since died. f . As now fully explainedthe accident was caused by a miner who entered an abandoned aban-doned portion f- the stope, which was marked "dangerous," with a naked lamp in his hand, thereby firing the gas and causing a terriffic explosion. . The loss of life is not so great as at first reported. At this hour (2 p.m.) one man, Dennis Titus, is dead, and fourteen frightf ally burned. The most of these, it is thought, cannot recover. Most of the injured men are Poles and Hungarians. Hun-garians. ; - |