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Show IffiJUUZE One of the Most Serious Accidents Ac-cidents in History of Coal Mining in the State. Eight Men Are Dead, Being Victims of the Fatal White, Damp That Filled the Corridors After the Fire Started. Heroic Work of Rescue Party. Anncondn, Mont. Ono of tho most serious nccldents In tho history of coal mining In Montnna has occurred In tho mines of tho Northern. Pacific nt Rocky Ford, near Red Lodge, Carbon county. Klght men nro dend, nil victims of tho fntnl wblto damp that filled tho corridors of tho mino after tho fire which started on Wednesday. Their bodies havo been recovered, but tho itory of tho work of rescuo parties Is i tnlo of unexcelled bravery nnd ho-ole ho-ole sclf-sacrlflce. Of tho dead, two wero members of )no of tho parties thnt entered tho tnlno In tho effort to reach tho men known to bo thero. Tho flro which cnused tho troublo itnrtcd In Incline No. C on Wednesday. This was belloved to bo under control lifter a long, hnrd light. At 7:30 Thursdny morning tho first rescuo party par-ty started down No. C Incline, proceeding pro-ceeding cautiously ns It wos found that thero wero still traces of tho fire. When they reached a depth of 1,200 feet all wero overcome Seven managed man-aged to strugglo bnclc to where thoy ;ould bo reached. lly this tlmo a denso volumo of imoke burst from No. B Incllno nnd !ho nlr In No. C was so foul that vol mteer rescuers wero driven back. At 10 o'clock nnothor rescuo pnrty was tormed, business and townspeople vol-antcorlng, vol-antcorlng, when tho Finnish miners ield bnclc terrified. Tho scene about tho mines beg-fared beg-fared description. Frantic women nd crazed men rnn nbout, hampering tho work of rescuo, Tho second vol. untocr party wns successful. The fans wero reversed nnd tho Binoko forced back out of No. C Incline. In tho slopes brattices wero mnde of canvas and wnter wns let In from vein ilk. Th rescuers wero lot down slowly In enrs. They first found tho uncon-icIoub uncon-icIoub forms of six of the first rescue party, which wero hurried to tho surface sur-face All but two wero revived. It Is belloved Hint tho Injured will entirely recover. Farther down the '.ho Incllno six other bodies were found, nil beyond hopo of restoration to llfo. Several of tho second rescuo pnrty, among them Pitt Ross Hag-gorty, Hag-gorty, wero overeomo during the day, but woro restored, and Haggerty returned re-turned to tho work of rescue. It la belloved that nil bodies hnvo been removed re-moved from tho mine. Tho work ot fighting tho llro Is now being pushed. Tho etato coal mine Inspector nnd locnl ofllcors of tho compnny aro on tho ground nnd characterize tho work of tho rescuers as bravo to tho point 'of foolhardincss. |