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Show REPORT ON DALY WEST EXPLOSION. As soon ns prerihlo nfter the explo-tlon explo-tlon In the Daly West Stale Mine Inspector In-spector Gomer Tbimns went to tho f.ceno to investigate He made a care, ful examination of the scene, heard the evidence nt the coroner's Inquests, mnde such inquiries ns were possible, nnd mado up his report. That report re-port was filed with tho Governor yrsterdny. It ndds some new features fea-tures to the history of the trng-cly. trng-cly. especially as tn the small nmount of powdir stored In the mag. nzlno on the l.'OO foot level, and ns to tho point thnt only a portion of it exrloded, some four tons burning slowly slow-ly nnd melting the metal used In the construction of tho mnrazine Ills opln-ion opln-ion Is that tho powdu man, Mr Burgle Bur-gle may not have started Iho fire hut that he saw It nnd ran tho position of his bod) when found helm' suh, as tn location, as to render It Impossible that he could have been blown there by the explosion But the causo of the explosion will always remain a mystery. mys-tery. The sorrowful pnrt of Inspector Thomas a rcrort Is that In which he rolnts out the mistakes of the rescuers res-cuers Thej shoull not huvo gone down Into the deadly poison, but should have stoppwl nt the 000 level, whero thero was rlenty of fresh nlr, nnd bulkhended against the air golns. down to tho 1200 level, turning it down tho thnft Ills opinion Is that the lenculng rarty would so have had plenty of f,PBi, nlr In their work and their lives, and mnny of the entombed miners vvc-uld hate. been saved "Thero need linve been no trnublii In doing this" saya Mr Thomas 'had theio been men there who understood tho ventilation nt u mine." That is tt cruelly severu re. ruction which wo cannot think In-srtcior In-srtcior Thomas would make unlesa he consumed that there was ample ground for It! aTTTT" tho horror of the ciw " ' told that its death "s" reduced by Intelligent1" add grievous pangs 6,"0'' memoiles of those who, ot"" tolled without good tC greater regret for t. Io J both rescuers and tw v hate been rcscui-d but ,, Is altogether a pitiful t0j,n7(! sorrow Inspector Thomas crltlC. Ulatlon of metal mine,, ,,7" lessness ot miners In u," spect thereto, but add, th,, ' the Daly West better yZ most metal mines He Jz that underground mri,n,' Ished by law, and thu, h,tt to lives and property bs (MJ la nn opinion which now t sent: and wo presume th, i enacted, without loss or tnj assembling ot the Ugl,itot |