Show I ELEVEN BODIES T TAKEN AIEN OUT OF TRINIDAD MIN j Helmet Crews Crew's Slowly Gain Tay Way Through Chambers of Death Trinidad 1 Colo Cob March 31 Eleven Eleven bodies burned In some cases until Identification identification iden Iden- was difficult had been recovered recovered ered cred late tonight from the Empire mine mIneor or of tho the Empire Coal company near Agul Agul- lar where a 3 sa gas explosion occurred early carly today Death apparently was Instantaneous in instantaneous instantaneous In- In I the recovered reco bodies with one ono exception n belli being found huddled to together to- to gather ethel under plies piles of debris Two other other oth oth- er bodies Intro have not been recovered stricken Grief-stricken mothers wives and sisters sifters who had waited anxiously at the mine entrance In JI JIa a heavy rain aided alde in identification of or the dead as the they were brought to the surface Tho- Tho cause of the explosion has not been determined The bo body of oC John Lundquist wa wai i re recovered re- re covered CO this afternoon Of Oc the thirty- thirty six men who were ware In the time mine when the explosion occurred twenty three made maue their wa way out in safety The explosion as as Indicated bv by conditions con con- conditions encountered by tIme the rescue rescue gangs ganss was confined to a small area about 2500 2300 00 feet feat from the mouth o of mine Wreckage at this depth barred harred the wa way of the helmet m men n. n but air conditions are Ire good and amid the ventilating In ing fan an Is JI working It I is feared however that tha t the men caught in this part of the time mine mino were killed Instantly by lIy the explosion or died soon after aCter from tho the damp after which usually develops from an ex explosion ex- ex ot or gas galt |