TWO GREAT DISASTERS.
IN CONNECTION WITH AMERICAN MINING. EIGHTY MEN ENTOMBED. (Received 21, 11.45 a.m.) New York, March 20. An underground gas explosion wrecked twenty dwellings in the Dunmere mining district. Two families were blown to pieces or burned to death. Several houses were completely destroyed by fire. Seven women and two" children are known to be dead. Earth settlings within the mines are believed to have caused the explosion. Reports from Fort Smith, Arkansas, state that it has been telephoned there that a great disaster lias occurred at the San Bois Coal Company’s mine at McCurtain, Oklahoma. A gas explosion occurred, entombing eighty men, all of whom arc believed to bo dead.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 73, 22 March 1912, Page 6
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113TWO GREAT DISASTERS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 73, 22 March 1912, Page 6
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