Tallmansville, West VA +Coal Mine Explosion+ An underground explosion at an Upshur County coal mine has trapped 13 miners more than a mile underground, a county emergency official said.
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U/D: 01/03/06 07:56
A mining company executive says officials are “very discouraged” by air quality tests in the mine where 13 workers are trapped.
Search-and-rescue crews have entered a West Virginia mine were 13 miners have been trapped since an early morning explosion
“They essentially came to a wall,” Milligan said. “So they can’t get to them at this time.” The miners were one to two miles underground, he said.
A specially trained mine rescue team was being sent to the scene