Hope had been virtually abandoned last night, states a Wheeling, West Va., dispatch, that any of the 115 miners entombed by an explosion yesterday in the Benwood mine of the Wheeling Steel corporation would be rescued alive. The bodies of eight miners had been recovered but the progress of mine rescue crews was made difficult by poisonous gasses that filled the workings. Two of the miners were yet alive when found but died a few minutes later.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Tuesday, April 29, 1924
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