MINE EXPLOSION
SEVENTY MEN MISSING. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. I By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, April 23. An explosion occurred in the Cincinatti coal mine at Finleyville, on the Monongabela river. Two miners are known to be dead, and seventy are missing. Twenty escaped by means of the ventilating fans. The missing men are believed to be dead, as the gas fumes are very thick. THE DEATH ROLL. RESCUE WORK PROCEEDING. Received 24, 10.50 p.m. New York, April 24. A hundred are dead at Finleyville. Eighty escaped by crawling through the shaft amidst deadly gas. Seventy bodies have been recovered. After-damp is hampering the rescue work. The fate of twenty of the men still in the mine is unknown. The cause of the disaster is unknown.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 25 April 1913, Page 5
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126MINE EXPLOSION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 25 April 1913, Page 5
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