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i Chief Heatherman. on Scene, Re~; I ports Six Kil’cd in McDowell jCounty Disaster. i• f »Chief W. J. Heatherman of thel state department of mines, who went! to the scene of the McDowell county! [mine explosion and fatality yesterday j afternoon on the first train after he received the report of the orccurence, j notified the department this morning I by long distance phone that all bodies) I had been recovered from the mine.! His message came from Kimball, thel nearest point on the Norfolk West-1 ern railroad to the scene pf the disaster, the mine being located about a mile back from there. He stated that five of the six dead were miners and the other was the mine foreman.The dead are: Foreman M. T. Heberts, John Teems, John Tollay, Charles j Chapman Elbert Smith and Richard! Kennedy. All lived in the vicinity of! the mining operation. J( Investigations made by the chief and j j deputies in that field show that the! explosion was caused by a local ac-| cumulation of gas in a remote part ofijthe workings. ' ' jj The mine is the Carswell shaft of-jthe Houston Colliers Company, lobatedi at Carswell, McDowell county, and is rated in the department records as a» | 200 men operation. Officials of the! j company notified the department oftl-j cials that only 50 men were working;: in the times at the time the explosion 1 occurred.
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Jul 19, 1919
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