Eight Miners Killed
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GREENVILLE (Kentucky), Aug. 8. At least eight miners were yesterday killed a mile and a half underground when an explosion caused a slate fall in one of the country’s largest softcoal mines, United Press International reported.
The men were trapped by a blast in the River Queen underground mine of the Peabody Coal Company near the
Western Kentucky mining town of Central City. The bodies of the miners who were in an area of the mine shaft below the point where the explosion occurred, were carried on stretchers to waiting ambulances and taken to a morgue. Relatives and friends of the miners, who had been sitting in an office at the mine waiting for word of their fate, were escorted out of the building sobbing. Mr Paul Gregory, a leader of the rescue team, said the men were killed by an explosion and not by a cave-in.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31753, 9 August 1968, Page 11
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