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Record and Chronicle Denton Texas Monday Evening

November 28, 1910

FOURTEEN MINERS KILLED

Gas Explosion in Jumpe (sic) Mines Near Antlers, Okla., This Morning

Force of Explosion Was so terrific that Five Miners Were Hurled Bodily out of Thirty-foot Shaft-List of Dead.

Paris. Nov 28-Fourteen men lost their lives is the result of a gas explosion in the Jumpe (sic) mines eighteen miles from Antlers, Okla., at 7 o'clock this morning. So terrific was the explosion that five miners were hurled out of the shaft which was thirty feet deep. Nine more were entombed and there is no hope of recovering them alive.

A large force of men is now digging for bodies. Many men had entered the shaft for the day's work.

The dead:

Richard Palmer

Olen Malone

James Gould

Henry Self

Charles Self

Dan McCarty

Newton Gillenwaters

James Carpenter

Pit Boss William Brown

Tom Stevens

D. J. Jones

Horace Lax

James Daughtery, aged 62, a lumber hauler in the Jumpo (sic) mines, died in his chair from the shock of the disaster while writing out the names of the men killed. Choctaw Asphalt company owned the mines.

County Coordinator - J. M. Felihkatubbe

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