MINING DISASTERS.
UNDERTAKERS FIGHT FOR BODIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriehi Washington, April 9. Seventy-four men wero killed at the Throop mine at Scranton, Pennsylvania, where a large number of miners were entombed by a fire. When tho bodies reached the pit's mouth, undertakers fought to secure the corpses, hoping to obtain burial fees. There wore disgraceful scenes until the police interfered. , OYER ONE HUNDRED DEAD. New York, April 9. The death-roll in connection with the Banner mine disaster at Littleton, Alabama, exceeds one hundred, all told. Few of the bodies are recoverable, because of black damp. The victims were mostly negro convicts. Fortv-five of tho workers, noticing the black damp, dashed in the direction of the shaft, and were rescued in tho nick of time.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1099, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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124MINING DISASTERS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1099, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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