Show DEATH IN THE DEPTHS I Bringing Out the Bodies From the Colorado Mine THE DECLARATION OF WAR King Milan in Command of tIleS V tIle-S rian ArmyTroops Enthusl tic Some Sharp Fighting Thc Colorado Casualty DENVEK COL November 14A dispatch dis-patch to the Associated Press from Silver Sil-ver Cliff late this afternoon says The debris has all been cleared away from the mouth of the Bull Domingo shaft Armstrong the foreman was let down by ropes about 400 feet and found the shaft filled with debris at this point and has sent up after pick and shovel Hopes are entertained that the men are still alive in the 350foot level Over 300 men are at work trying to save them The imprisoned miners arc Connovers J Westfield Elmer Heister D W Patton N DeGrossley P La Point John Laube George Smith Wm Strong and Marcus Paptist The loss to the company buildings and machinery machin-ery is about 50000 Later 5 oclockArmstrong was letdown let-down to the 530 level and found ten men all dead Five of them had climbed eighteen feet from the bottom of the shaft to the drift and their dead bodies were found in the debris in the face of the dritt At 7 oclock pm one of the dead bodies had been lifted to the surface The others will be all raised as sqon as possible Three of the dead men leave families living here Onewas engaged I to be married next week The superintendent superin-tendent was not injured as heretofore reported Much indignation is felt towards to-wards him and there is stroner talk of lynching by the indignant miners whe accuse him of criminal negligence in keeping the Giant powder in the boiler room It seems now that the fire originated in the roof of the building and a portion of the burning roof fell I into the boiler room on the Giant powder pow-der which exploded bursting a hole into the boiler and destroying the machinery ma-chinery so that everything stopped at once but the men could have been drawn from the mine if the machinery could have been kept running notwithstanding tha building was on fire no one was seriously seri-ously injured by the explosion in the building but the engineer and several others were stunned and bruised Engineer En-gineer Chamberlin was standing at his engine trying to make it work when he was surrounded by flames and was carried away by force by his friends Hundreds of citizens of Silver Cliff Rosita and Querida worked all night last night and all day endeavoring to rescue the miners and hundreds are there now helping to get the bodies out of tho mine Everything is done by hand as the machinery is destroyed The sad calamity has cast a gloom over the community such as was never known before S |