Show EAN HORROR coal mine no 4 at rock spring is albre A dispatch to the salt lake tribune last says kock springs coal mine no 4 with an underground area of nine wiles a capacity of live hundred a day and of producing the best fuel mined in alie is on fire with no hope of the names under three months it is the property of the union pacific and valued ut a million dollars the chinese who cooked up in their rooms in violation of the mining rules and territorial laws are to blame for the destruction of property and loss of life the fire was discovered at 1 this morning but was kept in hand until about i aben it commenced to spread rapidly and the men were ordered to the surface they had been nervous for some time and mutiny was threatened an hour before the general alarm was sounded they made a mad rush for the surface the leaders whose pallid fea turca the effect of the dust gathered on their faces were just issuing from the shafts mouth when an explosion which was heard for miles made the earth quiver and loosened coal in tb e other mines at the report throe thousand people living in the camp swarmed entrance of number 4 the agonizing of frightened women and children were chorused with tho yells and curses of nervous men oneie calls for volunteers for a rescuing party and a acore ecore of brave men responded their disappearance was the signal for another explosion louder and more forcible than the first seven of the searchers were injured one pait recovery the camp seemed panic stricken but the appeals and demands of the women for rescuers were raised above abo other cries A dozen men thia time and returned in a few minutes with six insensible and said that ten others of the race had been seen lying prostrate two of the re scared died aa once three explosions now occurred in r succession each sp eining more terrible than the proceeding one smoke issued in denae volumes from all ohp entrances and farther rescue work was abandoned there are at least thirty in the roine mostly chinese all the entrances have been closed and evily effort is being made to keep tb tain bounds 1 |