EXPLOSION IN MINE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19806, 19 December 1929, Page 11

EXPLOSION IN MINE.

SIXTY-THREE BODIES FOUND. a grief-stricken village. UX»TSJ> PRES* ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TZLEGRA?H— COPTRIGETT.) (Received December 2Sth. 10.53 p.ui.) NEW YORK, December 17. Sixty-three bodies were round in a gas-filled i'li;im!j!-r oO'.'oft below the surface after a frightful explosion at Obiton n coal mine. Two miners escaped alive, and the remainder were suffocated by g:!S . (l 'oups of si-reamiug, sobbing women and children gathered at the entrance of the mine. The majority &f the miners v/cre married, and left nearly two hundred children. A Red Cross appropriation of Zo.tjOir dollars was requested for the immediate care of the bereaved. Mine authorities believe that all have been accounted for. Relief workers, after spending a day endeavouring to save the miners, turned their efforts to aid the hysterical, grief-stricken families of the mining village, who were interrupted by the blast in the midst of their preparations to celebrate Christmas. ten bodies recovered. (X.XITED PRESS ASSOCIATION- —BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH—COP VBIGHT.) VANCOUVER. December 17. A message from McAlester (Oklahoma) states that sixty-two miners >vere entombed in an exnlosion at noon to'-day in the Old Town Coal Corapanv s mine. Ten bodies were reeovef~ early tTlis afternoon.