Show I I I 1 Dick Phillips I II I Former I I Killed in Mine I Dynamite exploding In lit a n uraI ura- ura I 1 alum mine UI Uravan near nn Saturday I night killed n a old 25 Grand Junction man mall and seriously In Injured Injured In- In Jurd his cousin Killed was wa IUchI Richard Richard Rich Rich- I ard George Phillips I The dead youth is the son lion o or oI I Mr and Mrs Dorr Dort Phillips and grandson of Dora Darn Blanchard of Park City Cily The wives of ot both men were at Dolores Camp near the mine when the accident oc oc- oc They had been living In trailer houses McCurry Recovering it William S. S McCurry said his stepson Larry Is still in a state of shock but Is recovering reco Ills His bod body was peppered with rock and his lungs were burned by gas from the ion Mr McCurry said both men were ere experienced miners Dick Phillips had been employed about a month at the Joe Mine leased by his uncle Don Young Larry I had taken a job there a ft week ago Wet et Fusee use I They had drilled n n a round of ot 44 holes Mr McCurry said Larry Larry Larry Lar Lar- ry had told him The mine was wet and they had some trouble getting the fuses In In Dick was lighting the fuses Some didn't didn't I light because they were wet Larry the fuses fuses fus fus- I es deeper so they would light bet bet- ter When they got the last fuse fuseI I flit lit Dick yelled due to toI I go Lets Let's get out of at here They started to run but the first one want off oft and they dived behind a slusher 1 i f 1 When the shots went off oft they were within 20 feet of at the face More Shots Went fOnt Off Oft After the first one Dick asked Larry If It he was hurt hurts Larry said saidI saidI saidI I dont don't think so I Are Are you Dick said No but I 1 think my arm Is broken The test ot of the shots went off oct and and they were peppered peppered- with rock They tried to crawl out Dick made about two s steps eps forward on hl his his- and n 1 the cU un llOd on his face Cace I Terrible o Gus Gas Larry took his arm arid tried to drag him up to the Incline He lie said the gas was so terrible that whenever he took a breath It was as some one reached down Inside and dragged his lungs out I Larry Lurry couldn't walk and got out by hauling himself hand over overhand overhand 1 hand up the Incline A miner came f om another I mine and tried to go in but the gas stopped him Don Young from tram another mine and he took an air line Une In into to get Dick Attempts to revive him failed and a doctor said death was due to At 1 Park City Uck ck was born torn Feb 22 1931 1931 at Aspen He lie attended grade schools at Aspen Park City and Moab graduated from Central High School and attended Mesa College for tor a year and a half hulf He lie spent 16 months in Korea with the Marines Dick had been working with his father at Arrowhead No IB It IBon on Outlaw Mesa until about a month ago when he wont went to work for tor his uncle He lie Is survived by his widow Ann Converse whom he on August 21 1955 1055 at Denver and his parents and two brothers brothers broth broth- ers Edwin and Michael and a sister Betty Detty all aU of Grand Junc Junc- tion lion |