Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — 22 DEAD IN MINE [ARTICLE]

22 DEAD IN MINE

Explosion Kills Over Two Score Men in Virginia Colliery. Twenty-two men were killed by a terrific explosion in the Greens mine at Tacoma. Va. There was a great detonation that shook the earth. The Greens mine is owned by the Bend and Bruce Gcal company, and is in Wise county, 100 miles from here, on the Norfolk and Western railroad. Relief parties with oxygen helmets and surgeons’, supplies are on their way to the scene of the disaster. Supt. James Browning, who entered the shaft just a few minutes before the explosion, is amorg the dead. Wives anc children of the entombed men surround the entrance begging the rescuers to bring their loved ones out of the shaft.