Show I GAS IS ISI U N MIN HI KIllS ON HE I HUNU D MEN LI Starkville Colorado the Scene of a Terrible Catas Catastrophe Catastrophe Catastrophe Reported to 10 j Have Occurred at 1050 Last Night J h PEAR HAR All Of O 3 ESCAPE iAn Ei SHUT Off J Relief Parties Rush Bush to Scene of j of the Loss of Life Lacking Lack Most of Victims Are Americ Americans ns TRINIDAD Colo Coo Oct OcL S Between en 50 60 and 25 men aro are entombed in the mine eight miles s from hero here the result of or an explosion which oc occurred occurred curre at 1030 tonight i The Tho explosion practically destroyed the tho old of the tho mine and md the new Is so o thoroughly filled with wIlh pas gas and black damp that entrance of rescue parties by b this Ull route is Im Impossible impossible l possible Hope for Entombed Men There Is la hope for the entombed miners however from the ilio fact that the tho Engleville mine is connected with tho the mine through under underground underground ground workings and nd only a heavy board partition separates them The two mines ran together sev several se SC eral months ago In the tho process of op OIl operation Ol ration oration and the point of contact l be 10 c the tho two main slopes was parti partitioned partitioned oft off The rue presence of gas and aud black blade damp In the tho new slope the 0 only one ono remaining open gives rise to fears that tho the whole mine is filled with the iho deadly gas sas and afterdamp and that thal the men could not have had time lime to reach the tho partition dividing ivl ng the two tw mines before beCore being overcome as the gas must have filled the mine minei i before finding an outlet through the new slope I z I 1 II I i Hundreds Hundred of oC men from froni neighboring n camps campa and from this city together with tho the physicians and nurses were hurried to the scene of the tho disaster and District Superintendent J JT T Thompson of f tho Colorado Fuel Trait Iron company c assisted by b Joseph Wilson of or the Uio mine mino have taken lalum charge of tho the rescue worl and anil will lead rescue parties Into In to the as soon as it Is safe to do so Tho llio mine has Ims net act been working a night shift until recently I when the demand domand for Its output be became became came ho so heavy that thal the daj II In a shifts could not moot moet IL it Then Thon a night shift shiH usually consisting of about men was ras put PilL to t work wo Cannot C Ascertain Number of Victims Victim It Is ib difficult to say sa just JURt how many man manmon mon men wore working when the explosion sion Sian occurred because they are al 31 allowed allowed lowed to 10 use ISO their own will as to working at night Tho The day da con C consists ll of about many of whom go 10 t into the tho mine at night to make malce the extra time Hmo Telephonic communication from I Into late tonight Is to the effect t tat Lal at the tho old Is In ruins The Tho ho debris at tho the mouth of or this slope had been hC n cleared away for COl a distance of or 40 0 Indications were ere that tho the was WIlS filled Miners Are of Foreign Birth While practically all the miners working In the mine white are aro I of or foreign birth many have been beau In Inthis Inthis this thin country count for 20 or 25 5 years can and anda andt a t large portion porton of them have hen boon working In the mine ever since inee It began operations in The Tho Thc properly of 01 the tho Santa Fo Fe railroad hut but Is la operated by the Colorado Fuel Iron company TRINIDAD Colo Cole Oct D One hun hundred hundred dred Ired mono mon nearly nearl all Americans aro arc aroi i reported killed In Iho ho Colorado Fuel Iron B mine at 1 several miles south of oC here hero by an ex ox explosion reported to t have hayo occurred at atI I 1050 tonight Tho Th explosion according lo to 1 first re ro reports rot reports t ports was by b an accumulation t of gM Immediately upon receipt of oft t I the th first report a special train was r up hero carrying doctors d clors nurses and anti volunteer parties and newspaper newspapermen men flee Many Means of Escape Ample Amplo galleries In the mine mille are arc re relied r lied liel upon lIpon to 0 afford the men air and possible Ilo means of oC escape The Tho workings arc enormous and arc are re reported ported to connect with the lIe En mine and others lher Unless those these connections are arc block blocked ed through disuse or choked bj b 1 de do debris dobris bris from front tho the explosion it iL is thought tho lie men have an excellent chance lor br life The mine Is widely w leh known be because because because cause of the tho few fow foreigners C employed in it and for this reason the scenes of unreasoning grief and fright were not nol so as aH Is usual Big Crowd Gathers A big crowd gathered immediately following the lie explosion o and is re reported rel ported l to be he steadily growing larger Several officials hove have gone from here hero hereto to the scene of the explosion Jho Tho mine of cf the o Fuel 8 lion company In which an ex cx explosion O Is reported to lun nave c occurs I today t a Is one one of tho lie largest owned by that company It supplies great grea quantities of coal to tJ the Sana ana Fo Fe railroad At midnight no official information I had been received at t eril of oft t In this cU eL Charles E chief clI f cone conn I sol sel el and head of Ilie claim department of or the had heard nothing I except that th t which was vas contained In newspaper dispatches I |