Show THIME ONE MEET T IN avine WORKMEN TRAPPED IN MINE considered THE SAFEST IN STATE OF washington fire follows follow explosion and many of victim victims are burned to death rese ers being unable to reach them an on account of heat Ec seattle attle wash As the result of at an explosion of coal dust in the north western improvement company coal cw mine at havendale ravendale ha vendale thirty fl re miles from here on tuesday thirty c cu 0 men were killed the timbers in the mine are still burning the bodle bodie of three men were recovered and three injured were brought safely to tho the surface where they were resuscitated by the use ol 01 pul motors the body ot at P J kane foreman ol 01 the third level 1500 belo below the BMP bull face where the explosion occurred was vms found seated in the chair before his desk just within the entrance tc the third thira level lavel he fie had been burned to death the rescuers were unable to remote his body because ol 01 the in tense neat heat in the level leyel which was on fire trained rescue men rushed to the mine from frow seattle leattle and from roaslyn and Gle gledura clurn were able by wearing oxygen belmeta hol bel mets to penetrate far enough into the mine to see the bodies of iho the entombed men lying in the mine but could not get to them because of the wreckage and the heat beat from the time the explosion occurred until late at night scores of women and children who had relatives in the mine crowded silently around the blackened shaft awaiting word from those laboring within to reach the entombed men even after word was parsed around that all were given givon up for lost the women waited hoping that the next trip of the cage would bring up the bodies of their loved ones the cause of the explosion Is unknown the mine was well equip equipped ped with safety appliances and was considered oue ot at the safest in the state |