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Show ' Sim MINERS MEET DEATH ' IN WYOMING COAL MINE Gas Explosion In Same Mine In Which, In 1903, One Hundred and Sixty-nine Lives Were Snuffed Out. Hnnna, Wyo. This camp . was visited vis-ited by nnothcr cntastropho Saturday afternoon, nnd tho lives of probably sixty mon wcro snuffed out by nn explosion ex-plosion of gas in mlno No. 1 of the Union Pacific Coal company. A flro had been raging below tho tenth lovol for a wcok, and tho forco of 200 miners min-ers had been laid off for tho day, fearing fear-ing an accident might occur. Superintendent Super-intendent Briggs nnd Foroman Burton, Bur-ton, with a crow of eighteen men, all experienced miners, with gas mon nnd flro fighters, went down into tho workings early In tho morning to fight tho conflagration, which was rapidly eating Its way through tho workings. At 3 o'clock tho men nbovo tho workings, tho Idlo minors in their homes and about town, woro startled by an awful roar, followed by a heavy boom and. the shaking of tho earth and trembling of tho buildings. All know whnt had hapened, nnd there was a rush to tho mine. Both entries had caved in and mine timbers had been blown great distances about tho outsido workings. Relief parties wont to work to securo tho bodies, for they know thoro wns little hopo of any of tho mon being nllvo. Whllo tho relief party was at work, a second explosion occurred. Tho second explosion occurred nt 10:30 o'clock at night, snuffing out tho lives of tho members of a rescuo party, Including Stnto Mlno Inspector D. M. Sites. Tho names of the men killed in tho first explosion were ascertained as-certained from tho company's books, but thoso of tho rescuers wcro not known, as no record was kopt of those who volunteered for this dangerous work. That nono hesitated In responding to tho cnll .for volunteers In tho res-2uo res-2uo of their follow workmen after tho first explosion, Is shown In tho fact that not a working official of tho thrco mines of tho Union Pacific Coal company com-pany in this camp Is left. All woro In tho mlno seeking to aid their stricken friends when tho second explosion ex-plosion transformed mlno No. 1 Into a Bhamblcs. A further ovldenco that tho leaders of tho men of tho camp wcro thero Is shown in tho fact thnt every official member of tho local lodgo of United Mlno Workers of America Is missing, supposedly dead in tho mlno. Tho disaster brings tho number of victims of explosions in mlno No. 1 during tho twenty years of its operation opera-tion to tho neighborhood of 300. Tho greatest previous loss of ltfo occurred on Juno 30, 1903, when 109 men fell victims to deadly gas. |
