Show FORTY ALASKAN MINERS KILLED Terrific Explosion Makes Many Widows Wid-ows and Orphans Yolande Alaska As the result of an explosion In Mine No 1 of tho Yolande Coal Coke Co forty men aro dead and possibly twenty moro deaths may result before the roll Is completed According to Suioriut < 2ndcat TtC Hiickabeef the oxp l orlon vas undo ht le l < nyuaelti > < < < wlndr shots Mr Huck abee had just made a tour of Inspection Inspec-tion and congratulated some of the men on the condition of their rooms A few minutes after reaching the top ho saddled his horse and was about to go for a days hunt when the explosion ex-plosion occurred The mines go down something llko 1610 feet There was a terrific explosion ex-plosion the forco of which was seen outside dust and timber being blown out in great quantities destroying small buildings nearby and also landIng land-Ing on the station some dlstanco away There was terrific heat immediate imme-diate after the explosion Officials of the company on the scene JmttiodlatQly took steps to start a rescue party to gpt the men on the liisldo Tho fans Were started and other methods taken to eliminate the bad air Within an hour fourteen men had crawled out of tho mine and their description of tho Inside wash was-h Several of these men were badly burned TWO hours after the explosion it was still impossible to venture oven near the mouth of the mine so hot was the air that was rushing out The Yolaude mines are but a few miles from Virginia City where a similar explosion occurred about two years ago 112 men being killed at that time |