Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — BURNED TO DEATH IN MINE. [ARTICLE]

BURNED TO DEATH IN MINE.

Score* Entombed by Terrific Flr» and lleavj Explosion. Blueflehls, W. Va., dispatch: Five dead bodies have been taken from the Baby mine at Pocahontas, Va. Several other persons are unaccounted for and are believed to be dead, and twentyfive persons have been rescued more or less severely burned. All this is the result of a fire and terrific explosion in the mine. The list of the dead so far recovered follows: Louis Woolwine, John Bernhart, Will Montgomery, M. D. Koontz and John Urico. At 3 o’clock a. m. it was discovered that the Baby mine of the Pocahontas Codl Company at Pocahontas was on fire. An alarm was sent in and the fire company responded promptly. In a short time after the fire fighters had reached the mouth of the mine and were attempting to extinguish the flames, some of the firemen and others, having rushed inside of the mines to ascertain the extent of the trouble and to assist miners entombed therein, a terrific explosion occurred and many miners and their friends were more or less injured. It is supposed that the mine caught fire from a defective electric light wire.