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From the Google News Archives:  (news links open in a separate window)
Mine Blast Kills Five; All Found Sandusky Register, Ohio January 4, 1931 The bodies were brought to the surface by a rescue crew composed of Federal and State mine rescue workers and local miners, just before 8 p.m. The victims apparently were killed by the explosion which seemed to have centered where their bodies were found scattered about the floor of the tunnel about 3½ miles from the entrance of the drift mine, rescuers said. Fifteen other men in the mine when the blast let go at about 10:30 a.m. escaped without injury, a few minutes afterward. The dead are:
When Federal and state rescue workers, accompanied by four Midvale miners, resumed the work with the protection of gas masks, late in the day, they found progress hampered by the wreckage strewn tunnels. They went into the mine back of the scene of the explosion, through a ventilating shaft, and found the bodies a thousand or so feet from the shaft and about 3½ miles from the entrance. Four of the bodies, all except that of Ohler, were found at about 6 p.m. The rescuers searched more than an hour before they found the last body and started the task of removing all five of them. A crowd of several hundred, including members of victims' families, a score or more volunteers waiting to take up the rescue work, and a number of curious drawn to the mine mouth from nearby towns, were gathered about in the near freezing weather to watch the rescuers carry out the victims. |
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