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united states mine rescue association
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From the Google News Archives:  (news links open in a separate window)
Mining Blast Toll May Rise Charleston Daily Mail, West Virginia January 23, 1941 Welch, Jan. 23 (AP) -- Confident that dust was a factor in the explosion yesterday which killed four men, state mine inspectors resumed their studies today at the scene of the blast in the Koppers Coal Company's Carswell mine. Physicians, meanwhile, expressed little hope for the recovery of three of the 14 miners injured in the early morning disaster. Described as "critical" were:
State Miner Chief N. P. Rhinehart had announced that dust was an explosion cause, but he said it was not determined whether gas was a factor. Koppers officials at Pittsburgh said that little damage resulted from the explosion and work could have resumed today if it was not for the investigation. Carswell, a shaft operation mostly mechanized, had produced more than 1,000,000 tons in the last two years with but a single fatality. The last previous explosion in the mine was in July, 1919, when six men died. The dead were:
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