Explosion at Traveskyn is Fatal to Three Three persons, all the members of a Traveskyn family save one, were mangled and died, the last one Wednesday morning, in the West Penn hospital, as the result of an accident of about 25 pounds of black powder in their home Tuesday morning. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. PODOLAK and their daughter Bruna, 3 years old. Only a 7-month-old child was rescued. Early Tuesday morning when the miners in the hamlet of Traveskyn wee wending their way to the MCCLANE mine they heard a heavy detonation and hastened to the home of PODOLAK. They found the husband rolling in agony in a small brook and his wife trying to pump water on her burning garments. Inside they found Bruna crying from the pain of her burned body and in another room, the baby was in a blazing bed. At the heels of the miners came scurrying the first-aid corps of the nearby mine, which after administering to the victims, sent them to the hospital. Wednesday morning it was rumored that the cottage had been blown up in revenge but County Detectives Allan O'BRIEN and M. J. GRANDE, investigating, disproved this report. PODOLAK, according to his story and that of his wife was filling his four-pound flask from a keg, at the time smoking a cigarette (sic). The ash dropped and the explosion jammed man and wife against the walls of the two roomed cottage, from which were blown doors and windows. The man, frantic with pain, ran to a brook and rolled in the water to extinguish the fire in his clothing and relieve his anguish. Meanwhile the wife ran to the pump. Alexander MCCLANE, superintendent of the mines bearing his name, said it was customary for the miners to have powder in kegs in their homes and fill their flasks in the morning. He said that PODOLAK's home must have contained about 25 pounds. After the accident a man who had aided in rescuing the child became intoxicated and talked rambling of the explosion. This caused reports among the foreigners to the effect that the house had been blown up by an enemy of the miner, which caused the sending of detectives to Traveskyn and the disproving of the story.