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Successful Rescue Lloyd Lypscomb, once given up for dead, was rescued early Saturday from the Weyanoke mine at Arista, and the feeble spark of life, all but extinguished by suffocating gases in which he lay for 15 hours was fanned back to a flame so strong that physicians attending the injured man said he was sure to recover. Rescue of Lypscomb made the death toll of Friday's dust explosion to ten, all of whose bodies were brought up by rescue parties. The remaining 17 workers, trapped when the walls of the mine crumbled, were saved by rescuers. They were only slightly injured. Source document
Six Workers Die in Coal Mine Explosion Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada March 3, 1923 Seventy-five men were at work in the mine when its channels were rocked by the blast, 3200 feet from the main openings. However, many of them were in other sections and were not caught by the crumbling of the walls. Of the 38 entombed, 27 only slightly injured were rescued. The force of the explosion tore through to the surface, scattering timbers and huge boulders for a distance of several hundred feet. Tongues of flame shot through these openings. An overcharge of dynamite, used in blasting, probably was the cause of the disaster, W. A. Craven, superintendent of the mine, said tonight. Arista, the scene of the explosion, is a small mining town in Mercer County, in the extreme southern section of West Virginia, and is practically isolated by the surrounding mountainous country. Ten Die in New Virginia Mine Horror The Times Hammond, Indiana March 3, 1923 Lloyd Liscomb, a miner, was taken out this morning more dead than alive. He was given first aid treatment, but was in such a condition he could not give any details of the disaster. With the recovery of the ten dead and one living miners all the employees of the mine were accounted for today. Liscomb was entombed behind a fall of slate, rock and coal for fifteen hours. The dead:
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