Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE. [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE.

Three Men Hilled and Scores Injured. [Denison (Texas) dispatch. I A terrible explosion of gas occurred recently in a coal mine near Savanna, Indian Territory. There were 100 miners working in the mine at the time of the explosion. Three are reported killed outright, eightynine are seriously burned, and forty-two are slightly burned or otherwise injured. The names of tho killed are: John Houston, Wrtliam Puxon, and Edwaril Griffiths. Only a partial list is obtainable of those seriously injured, among whom were Morgan Hughes, William Courtney, Peter Farrell, Frank Grimes, Robert McOhollup, David Richardson, William Boyle, Henry Davidson, Peter Carlbon, James Orlaudor, Charles Turpou, James ltesch, George Farr, H. Kerr, John Gibbs, Thornton Miller, Peter Curren, and William Cameron. Savanna is a small village on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in the vory heart of tho Indian Nation, about twenty-five miles south of McAllister and fifty miles north of Atoka.