Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1908 — GAS KILLS ENTOMBED MEN [ARTICLE]

GAS KILLS ENTOMBED MEN

Ton D|e From Fumes Which Escape from Shattered Main. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 29.—Three bodies have been recovered and seven more are known to be buried in an immense cave-in of a trench at the blast furnace plant at Ensley. Mechanical carriers were used to take away dirt. One of them broke and a beam fell on the cement wall which formed one side of the trench the men were digging. A four-foot gas main was shattered and the fumes were poured in upon the entombed workers.