Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-03-20 | Page 1 | 85 Men Killed

Gas Explodes and 0k . H lakomaMine Is H On Fire ' H Fort Smith; Ark., March 20 It 1 is' H feared that t5 men were killed when jH mlno No. 2 of the San Bois Coal , jH company, at McCurtaln, Okla., was IH wrecked today by an explosion (Of j gas in the ninth levol. Fire and' H smoko thus far have prccnicd a.ny " cffoctlvo rescue work, jH Ono body brought out was so bad- jH ly burned that experienced' miners jH believe there is little hope of les- jH cuing alive the other 81 composing JH tbe day shift. jB A special train left here at 11 a. niy IH carrying all available doctors ana H nurses 'and vith orders to pick Up H other doctors at Intermediate points '' for service at the McCurtain mine H disaster. Reports to the mlninc company; H headquarters indicate a' heavy los H of H RESCUE FORCE CALLED mm !H McAlcster, Okla., March 20. Mlno jH Inspector BurgcBS, with rescue appar- H atus, left here this afternoon for Mc- jH Curtain No intimation was given' jH him as to the seriousness of the ca- -H tastrophe. jH