| Show EIGHT 1661 MEN KILLED lULLED IN MINE Gas Ignites in Shaft Blowing Out t Cinders Gin de is Which Wh Ic h Fire F Many Houses Roslyn Wash WasIl Oct 3 At least esst eight men were killed and three fa fatally faI a aI I tally injured in an explosion of gas gus in the shaft shift of mine Ho Xo 4 of the t e North Northern i ern em Improvement company it at 12 45 this afternoon Rescue raE rarities l ties entered the tile mine as soon on as ns possible lW sible and recovered several of the dead bodies and rescued several men who were more or le less The mine minei mineL i is L on fire and the water supply is about exhausted I AVIATORS H FLY Y AfTER SUNSET Curtiss Finds Wind ous otis and Does Not Wot Stay Slay Long in Air New York Oct 3 In a wind more treacherous than an aeroplane can well withstand Glenn Olenn H Curtiss started out outto outto outto to fly from Governors island In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York harbor just after sunset this even evening lag ing ng At sea Ilea level it appeared that there had md become a lull in the strong wind windI I but ut when the aviator got sot into the air he found the breeze breege still sUU fitful and aft art after arter after er a minute aloft during which the aeroplane was wall tilted at dangerous an angles angles angles he came safely to the ground Wilbur Wright whose contract re requires requires requires quires him to attempt nights flights when weather conditions permit up to Oct 9 did not appear on Governors island today A hundred or more spectators spectator saw aw w Curtiss attempt his flight The aero aeroplane aeroplane aeroplane plane sped along the ground for tor about yards and then gracefully mounted into nto the air It flew evenly as the avia avis aviator aviator tor kept it j headon to the wind But when he turned his rudder to describe a circle a puff of wind caught the machine and tilted it Righting it quickly Curtiss Curries shut off his hili motor and glided gilded to earth Johannisthal Germany Oct a atlon week was ended today before a large arge crowd which was compensated for the disappointment of the preceding preceding ing days by a sensational flight alter after sunset by Humert Latham Lathain All day long Latham had been dogged by misfortune ml First his hie motor went wrong At length after three failures he be ic made an easy start two tO minutes aft af after after t ter er sunset and although he reached a height officially estimated at feet I 20 feet higher than Rougiers record of yesterday esterday he was disqualified Latham flew repeatedly around the field The known dead are William Wililam Dominick Bartolero Dan Hardy Philip Tom John E Jones Jone Carl Berger Bergen gang PA b boo Aaron Isackson The fatally injured Otis Otla James Gurrell John X Jones Jonea engineer and father of ot John E Jones When then the explosion occurred a of fire was thrown hundreds of feet tEet into Irit int the air aJr igniting the shaft plant and aid ad al adjoining d joining buildings Under the int n heat beat the hoist of the shaft crumbled a ani ni fell into the furnace below find Cind i 1 r Were blown in all directions and ami limp built ings iop in various parts of the little HI mui i I i 1 town tow took fire The citizens wen able aba abato to extinguish these the e small sinai fires anti and th t II Roslyn fire department aided by jy ap apparatus apparatus and men sent from Cle 1 three miles away have cI li iIo J blaze to the main buildings of the inn i J Thirty minutes after the wagons began bringing injured men t the emergency hospital ho Many of in Lii l 1 men who were not killed outright iy by bythe jy the explosion are burned beyond mu recI re Ig Ignition and can live Uve but a few hours houn The mine in the neighborhood of the thA shafe is burning fiercely and flames arn a ar rA shooting up from the shaft nearly nearl i 1 io feet into the air all The electric pumps pump which supply the town of Roslyn with water have been cut off and ad the v it r supply Apply In hi the city Is la very nearl nearly ex c hausted It is reported that the shaft is caving in and other explosions may occur at any moment Rescue parties will be sent ent into the mine proper from the tile slope connecting with the shaft as Boon aoa as It K is safe fur for formen furmento men mento to approach Confusion Reigns The scene in Roelyn Immediately fol fd following lowing the accident was wu one of ot wild con cnn confusion fusion Men women and children from their homes at the sound BOUnd of t explosion n and hurried to t the mine It was not known how many i were working in the shaft and poop e eran ran frantically about abo t searching for r rl 1 t 1 tives in the crowd that gathered nar nt ar arthe the burning shaft It was fortunate fortunat that the accident occurred on Sumi Sunday when only the pump men and making repairs in the mine were at work Had the explosion occurred on a work working working working ing day the list of fatalities might ha havo v been as great as that of the r of May 10 1902 1102 when Roslyn mine X Nj 2 exploded causing a loss Iou of fifty c Nearly men are regularly in mine No 4 The mine officials are unable to ex cx explain x plain the cause of the explosion fon General Superintendent J F is seriously serious ill of typhoid fever hut when he learned of the disaster hf hI in insisted j n ii on taking charge of the rev res reua ua ue work directing the operation of the tha workers from front the sick bed The mines of the Northwestern Im Tm Improvement Improvement provement company are the largest m irl the state and have a producing capacity of tons They employ 2500 menThe menThe men menThe The loss of shaft No 4 which va was one of the biggest producers d dby by b the company will materially affect the coal lo l output of the state Roslyn is miles east of Seattle |
