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From the Google News Archives:  (news links open in a separate window)
Successful Rescue One miner was found alive after an explosion at the Kinloch underground coal mine of the Valley Camp Coal Company in Parnassus, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. The rescued miner was trapped for nearly 1 day. 12 miners were killed in this accident. (Parnassus was later renamed New Kensington). The Deceased (official):
Five Known Dead, Seven Missing in Mine Blast Warren Tribune, Pennsylvania February 21, 1928 The bodies of three miners were brought up the Kinloch incline to the pit mouth at noon. Helmet squadrons of the mining company and the U. S. Bureau of Mines at Pittsburgh believed they would find the seven men in scattered work rooms far within the mine before many hours. Experts said there was little chance they could be alive. Five Bodies Recover at the Kinloch Mine United Press February 21, 1928 New Kensington, Pa., Feb. 21. -- (UP) -- The bodies of five explosion victims in the Kinloch and Boyd mines of the Valley Camp Coal Company near here were recovered at noon today. Seven other miners were still missing. Three of the bodies were recovered from the Kinloch mine where the explosion occurred at 9:30 o'clock last night and the other two were taken from the workings of the Boyd mine, several miles from the scene of the explosion. The latter two were killed by blackdamp which swept through to the connecting mine after the explosion. Five men were known to have escaped injury when the blast rocked the Kinloch mine and five more men were able to get to the surface when the gas swept into the Boyd slopes. The bodies recovered were those of:
Bert Black, the only man so far recovered from either of the mines alive, was rescued in the Boyd workings. In attempting to escape the gas he had run about a half mile in the slope before he became exhausted and fell. Rescue squads pushed their way through the gaseous chambers of the Kinloch mine this afternoon with little hope of finding any of the seven missing miners alive. Officials said all miners in the Boyd slopes had been accounted for. The miners in these workings were overcome by the gas when they went to their locations for work at 7 a.m. They had not known that the blackdamp had swept into their pits from the Kinloch blast. Some of the men in the Kinloch mine were negroes employed as machine runners. The other men were white coal cutters. O. S. Taylor, purchasing agent of the coal company, said the following men were missing in the Kinloch mine:
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