Show THE EXPLOSION AT liMY ri 1 I Some Salt Lakers Amonjr the Victims Vic-tims Thirteen Killed Further particulars received from Almy concerning the explosion at mine No 4 describes the affair as being terrible in the extreme At the time it occarred 1130 oclock pm nearly all the inhabitants of the town were in bed The noise and jar however awakened them and men women and children ran wildly aboat many clad only in their night clothes almost crazed with fear Thirteen men were killed one being blown nearly half a mle and when his body was discovered it was burned to a crisp disemboweled and minus the hed The flames blched forth from the mouth I of the stope to the height of several hundred feet accompanied by a loud hissing noise that was almost deafening Timber rocks carwheels lumps of coal and all kinds of debris was thrown through the lair Many rocks went through the houses like bullets from to gun several of the occupants narrowly escaping instant death some of the people in the houses were slightly injured The earth shcok with such force as to make it impossible for one to retain standing positionand men and womu were thrown about lijie feathers in a wind Eleven men are buried in the mine All their names had not been ascertained when our correspondent wrotebut it is known that Henry Cummock of the Eighteenth Ward this city a boy the son of George Peterson Frank Mason and John Hood are known to be among the victims The following was handed us last 1 evening Henry P Cummock father of John I B Cummock of the Eighteenth Ward is one of the victims of the recent explosion ex-plosion at Almy He was down the mine attending to various duties particularly par-ticularly to the firedamp when the explosion ex-plosion occurred His son is there assisting as-sisting in recovering the bodies and has telegraphed for his wife to come as soon as possible Mr Cummock was well known and well respected by all who Knew him as an honest and straightforward straight-forward man He leaves a large number of sorrowing friends and relatives A later report says it is knownthat John Peck Joseph Evans and William Evans of Ogden Ellis Rid man John Hunter Enoch Thomas a boy nami d Horn and men named Hood Edwards and Hosley are killed Seven of tie victims have been extricated from tLe mine and work is being vigorously prosecuted Iboking to the recovery of the remainder Qn Ogden paper has another account as follows The sound of the explosion startled the people of Evanston four miles distant and lit up the streets until they were as bright as day The explosion sounded like a huge mass of roaring flames and produced pro-duced almost a panic An engine was kept running from Evanston to Almy carrying passengers to the scene of the accident and every possible kind ot conveyance was brought into requisition to convey people to the scene of the disaster It appeared that two men were m the act I of going down into the mine at the time the explosion occurred Tbe mangled man-gled remains of one of the men were gathered up about half a mile from the mouth of the mine the headhowever not having been found The mutilated remains of the other were found about I a quarter fa mile away No trace of j I the car which the men were going down in has yet been found No names of the untortanate victims can be learned Some twelve or fourteen men were in the mine at the time of the catastrophe and it is thought that no possible chance exists for their escape as fire damp pervades per-vades the chambers ot the mine Five or six men attempted to go down into the mine to rescue the entombed miners min-ers but could not withstand the effects of the deadly gas and were taken out in a state of unconsciousness It is said that six married men are in the mine while the others are single The mine is entered at an incline of about fifteen degrees It is said that they were working some chambers that had been vacant since the Chinese massacre of last fall and it was reported that the superintendent superin-tendent of the mine was hid up and conld nowhere be found after the explosion ex-plosion It was a wellknown fact that the mine was full of foul gas before the disaster occurred The wildest confusion and most intense in-tense excitement prevailed at the mines and everywhere the news of the horrible affair spread among people who had friends and relatives at work there It is said that the fatality would have been much greater had it not been that there was a dance in progress at the time and a great many of the miners were dancing that would otherwise have been in the mine |