MINING DISASTER.
100 MEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
TWENTY STILL MISSING. By TelezraDh—Press Aesociation—Copyright Pittsburg, April 23. Two men are dead and seventy missing as the result uf an/cxplosion in tho Cincinnati nunc, belonging to tho liola River Coal Mines Company, I'inleyville. N 'livcntv escaped by means of (lie ventilatiiif; fans. Th© missing are believed to be dead, as tho gas fumes are of the. thickest. (Rec. April 21, 10.15 p.m.) New York, April 24. It has been ascertained that thcro are a hundred deaths as the result of tho explosion at Finleyville. Eighty men. escaped by crawling through a shaft amidst tho deadly gas. Seventy bodies have been recovered. Afterdamp is hampering tho rescue work. Tho fato of twonty men who are still in the mine is unknown. No caitso can at present be assigned for tho explosion.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 5
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138MINING DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 5
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