Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — WHOLESALE MURDER. [ARTICLE]

WHOLESALE MURDER.

Two men wore instantly killed, two fatally burned and five others dangerously hurt in an explosion at the Kansas City Clay and Goal Company’s mine, near Leeds, six east of Kansas City, Friday afternoon. Tho mine had been in an uqsafo condition for some time and had been condemned by the State mine inspector. Tho fans wore out of repair and stopped frequently and were stopped for half an hour just before the explosion. A groat amount of gas accumulated In the meantime, and it is supposed the explosion was caused by one of the miners going into tho chamber which was filled with the deadly gas. There were 125 men In the mine at the tlmejand it is remarkable that so few were killed and injured, as they were all workingon the same level.