KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION IN A MINE.
SIXTY CONVICTS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. WASHINGTON, atli April. Sixty convict mine-workers were killed by an explosion at the Banner coal mines, at Littleton, Alabama. Two hundred men were entombed. DEATHS EXCEED ONE HUNDRED. BLACK~DAMP. (Received April 10, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 9th April. The death-roll in connection with the Banner Mine disaster "exceeds one hundred, all told. Few of the bodies are recoverable, because of black damp. The Victims were mostly negro convicts. 1 Forty-five of the workers, noticing the black damp, dashed in the direction of the shaft, and were rescued in the nick of time.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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