Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE. [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE.

Three Men Killed and Scores Injured. (Denison (Texas) dispatch.] A terrible explosion of gas occurred recently in a coal mine near Savanna, Indian Territory. There were 100 miners working m ths 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 the killed are: John Houston, William Paxon, and Edward Griffiths. Only a partial list is obtainable of those seriously injured, among whom were Morgan Hughes, William Courtney, Peter Farrell, Frank Grimes, Robert McChellup, David Richardson, William Boyle, Hem-y Davidson, Peter Caribou, James Orlander, Charles Turpon, James Resch, 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 very heart of the Indian Nation, about twenty-five miles south of McAllister and fifty milea north of Atoka.