FATAL EXPLOSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 7

FATAL EXPLOSIONS.

AMERICA'S DEATMOLL

NO HOPE FOR CPITTSBURG MEN. : DISASTER IN SICILY. M TBLIQBArn—PEES3 ASSOCIATION— COrTMGnT. ,/';J\ . (Rco. Deo. 22, p.m.) '■'■'.-':vy •'■:...,.' New York, Deccinbor 21. In, connection with' tho oxplosion and firo reported' yostorday in tho Pittsburg Coal Company's- Narr. mino, at Jacob's Creole, which caused 250 Amoricans and Hungarians to bp'cntoiriliedj'oil hopo has bcon practically: obandonod for tho safety of tho miners. • '■'■''. Thirteen bodies, havo been discovered terribly mutilated, thfoo of them being headless. ■_

;-'.■„ ■::• FIFTY DEATHS. • •' '"'••;,■■ Ronio, December 20. An explosion ; at o privately-owned arnw faotoryat Palermo, Sicily, killed or.injured over one 1 /hundred popple! . ■/. (Reo. Deo.' 22, 4.25 p.m.) ;•■■ Romo, December 21. The explosion at Palermo was due io illegal storing of explosives. Two buildings, including an Emigrants Hotel, were involved in" the .explosion, and a cab passing at the time was blown to atoms. ' . So ';far ; fifty bodies have boon recovered from ruins.; The majority: of the. vie-. !' tims wore ; returned emigrants, including fifteen women and eight children. ■•. , .\WHAT■■CAiUSES EXPLOSIONS IN MINES? '.' -J :• '" '.'. '■ London, December 20. Seismic, records preceding the four last mining disasters suggest that the earth's un- ,'. rest was'a. contributing caiiso,'. On-December 1 an oxplosion occurred in the Naomi;Colliery, Pennsylvania,: and tho last cabled'advice estimated the deaths at 60. ,A• few>days later the .disastrous explosion * occurred at tho Baltimore Consolidated Coal , Company's ; mine, 'near Pairinount. Over 100 bodies.were recovered, and firo stopped further ■ • search.. .'. ._''';. ■ .. i '] The/jthird his mine explosion in' America was /on December' 16,'"in a mino at. Yolando, Alabama. •/It is estimated that'twenty men were.killed. ■. /.; •;' ■..'.' ~'.,' , ' ' The same day an explosion was reported in a' Gilfacnoch, Glamorganshire, Wales;.6even deaths. ' . Among/recent explosions in magazines and factories is the blowing up of Kynoch's, Birmingham. , ...','.!.'',' '.;■,'. ' ' . " .'Among •. to-day's cablegrams is ;a .roport of • twenty 7 five.- deaths through an explosion .in an - arms factory at Palermo, Sicily. • The great explosion'in October at tho Dnpont.blasting\powder mills, Fontanet, Indiana, was; credited, with a death-roll of 40.