Show EVEN lan M EN K I 1 A AV r alil ament PL N T kegs of powder explode while the men are passing powder in the tunnel ALL foreigners BUT FOREMAN defective wiring believed to be the cause of the disaster the men were blown to fragments ACCIDENT OCCURRED WEDNESDAY seventeen men mell were atoms at the devils slide wednesday morning by the accidental or premature e explosion of kegs of black powder in a quarry tunnel of the powder gang who entered the tunnel not a man escaped the greater number of the the bodies were buried under a hundred thousand tons of rocks and others are scattered in small portions over a square mile of hillside hugh mcguire foreman of the gang was the only american killed seven austrians Aust rians six italians one hungarian and ana two japanese comprise the number defective wiring for light and power is 3 believed to have been beebi the cause of the explosion the dead ailigh lc Guin 2 year old unmarried foreman formerly of gaorge cataloni Cato loni lolli laborer 11 Cato cataloni loni brother of george I 1 I 1 sih u map frank ran coney concy laborer S D Beni trado laborer 1 L N 41 0 labo laborer I 1 F 1 yu kiik laborer 31 laborer 1 Caniba olo In borer 1 F ile govie I 1 laborer pele iele toj Vic liioi pr 11 Skei nic laborer at laborer lili 11 la boror 1 chris Po treff laborer A k isilie japa laborer P F japanese four font hundred and fifty ken kegs s of oe black powder abere placed in ill tho the tunnel month tuesday night aal tit alic el alel aisa in ill passing these froni from blind liand to 0 hand to tile the kowt 21 iia nt lit either end of tit tin I 1 T shil lied Intuit 1 that aliat had li id been driven sixty feet into tile mountain hush ATC tc was at taj tl very arry pockets edge directing tilt emptying of tile the begs w 11 of which had beell placid in ill tin tho llo lioa alitt rho ceplo 0 aion rocked the mountain sido with the force of till nn acry overy window in ill tile laboratory lal hib oratory and office of tl tle plant yards away rocks hall half it ton toll shot through thio ush the iron roofs of jf tile power plant nt at the factory si it full li of it a mile from the scallop of alv explosion narrowly illi saing these prostrate workmen who ivilo though Isi mined liy by tho ahn colit coit esc apoll injury ahr bodied of Ife Quire and the maio majority rity of his inen will not ilot IS 15 recovered for nimy days A full hundred ji thousand tons ot of rock lies over them the rite dismembered of flesh and hone bone discovered so fur far tire are those of foreigners who were working in ill tile the month of the ho ti tunnel innel tray far out oitt int into the can call yon a as s from froin a cant 1 on 8 month olith tin the I 1 lite atu of those Avi within thill the til tunnel linel enn call only lie be ima nind in ill tile opinion of they wore were blown to lo in inin nolte lite atoms atols so 0 O far as ah is known tho majority of nf tin tile dead men inen ar aly filly 1 ain 06 1 t ft tV iMiri fr lly connection ij inthis in ill this country tile hie plant ivelia on oil tile the day chiy despite tit great holes in ill the roof th wed window to rel bellind lind tho kilell or of tin alt bilto fat 1 of 1 their fellow wor Lers hers work the quarry anni rv wis avas abandoned ec and ami lit no oll avas ii llowd in that vicinity vici nily ill dailor 11 ol of another wits was over tin coroners jail enry V that len and that visited the aay lias has ili ad jour lied it lo 10 tile HIP call lilt or ol tilt coroner coron rr this calla ill nol ilot until thi hole lias has cleared out etli mil 1 ever arvery efrost tort lit heal made to alv tl i of tile apt anns the ime hilge plant of silv 1711 ortland coni inny y Is situated in ill the narrow dafile d filtz of weber canyon at it a point a short di distance to lite cast of the wonder yon ler the slide and thirty seven miles from froin og 09 tell den iho aho plant and tilt the are on oil th J north side of tilt the canyon alli all I the little town of probably GOO inhabitants j i ji i i un on the sonth sido of the canyon and ami nearly d liale anilo to the v vest cst ov of 00 plant file fhe it in which tile the walo son occurred is pro billly 20 yards north of tile plant and high himli on oil if 11 tail side hido abd i j reached by it ii mirrow ge ron line of railroad biale is transferred from tilt the mountain tRill ride after it has hijii broken down by the heavy blasts to alie dump earn cars axy steam shovel aej tile glnn moved oved tople plant ovir ovel the tt temporary nip r railroad I 1 the manner of breaking breakie br eakin down this shale and gettin it ready tt to load into the cars is to driva 11 lou till abid narrow tunnel int into 0 tile the heart of tin tile ledges and nt lit it lis dis tit nee of front from lifty fifty to sixty feet ed front from tile the in month orith to run ruil lacios li across cios belits nits to taw n right nuil and luft left a ilk dis of ten fret feet in ill either dice lion foi till nn underground tj 11 tire dug in ln tho the floors ars of lliso el alad chambers tire sire thus lius for ined into abich aich ilir louvy charges ot of lack 1 tire loaded three have been nil ad abed us its to the cause of tile ae nr i one is is blint it slark may lia beon hanick by bv it nail ingv itoe of oile of the ali as lie was trending treading on oil ill tin sti tilting tile the gloor of tile the tit alel ix another is is flint lit in sonic some tile arit yow globe ligia ill alic fill linnal illel fice fair be became callie hl aall ind tl cilito ilot hot flanly I 1 t foll upon pon grains of the lir powder iuna t the lie third is is that w rinsed it a spark winch ignite irn ill powder |