Mine Disaster

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 76, 24 November 1922, Page 5

Mine Disaster

I CATASTROPHE IN ALABAMA. Washington, November 22. At Birmingham, Alabama, a hundred miners are reported to-'be' bar/ied throng a dolomite mine explosion. " Four hundred miners descended, 'but the roll call shows that at least twb hundred men are still underl ground. The rescuers have encountered so [ many dead that the fatalities are estimated to be at least a hundred. It I is hoped the remaining hundred are l still alive. There is a bulwark behind these which it ig expected will -'be uninjured by the force of the explosion, which it is believed Is due Uo the ignition of coal dust from a [short circuit In an electrlcally-drlv-■j en coal car. The explosion was so great that window panes were broken a mile distant, and a tip load at the mouth of the mine was ignited.

EXPLOSION IN PENNSYLVANIA, New York, November 22. j A message from Barnesborough, I Pennsylvania, states the coroner’s j 'jury held the management of the Reilly Coal Company’s mine responsible for the mine disaster at Span- | gler, Pennsylvania, on the ground that they -kndw gas accumulated, yet they took no proper precautions. (The explosion in the mine imprisoned 104 men, of whom 33 were resI cued. The, mine was supposed to be ,free from gas, consequently the mincers were not wearing oxygen helmets.)