Show SIGHTS SELDOM SEEN I Further Particulars of the Castle Gate Coa Mine Explosion I CASTLE GATE Dec 131890 Correspondence i of THE HEUALDA terrible explosion occurred I oc-curred at the mines here last night by which j three men lost their lies lThe names of the I men were James Berry miner Jeremiah Me1 Grady miner and John Dixon shot firer The I explosion took place at f5 p m Immediately after the explosion scores of miners were to be j seen going up to the mines ready and willing to render all assistance necessary When it was I deemed wisdom to go in the mine a corps of men headed by the foreman went in as far as I they could They had safety lamps with them 1I I i They could not go in very far on account of after damp but they persevered and by degrees got I to the bottom of the fourth raise entry where the two miners were working They were brought to the surface hardly recognizable I charred and bruised The next thing was to find the fireman so as to locate the cause of the explosion Efficient and competent miners were going in gangs bratisbing up the crosscuts I cross-cuts and entries lorting the air ahead of them After repeated efforts they found him lying in the main atrwny close by the battery house i K aieite I I I whero he went in to lire the shots of the main entries Such asccue was never witnessed by those I who lyid been in other explosions as was seen around the mouth of the level the debris lying all around in heaps The force of the concussion 1 r concus-sion had dislodged the largo drum from its place I and hurled it down the incline while over the I I hill m a ravine whore they have an I i entry driven out lo daylight but which has been stopped up lor some time j and which goes under this ravine about fifteen i feat below the surface the force blew the whole j I body of earth up and left i 1 chasm of about j j twenty feet wide Mining cars were smasLol to match wood and the whole electric plant m the mine nearly demolished The windows in I the power house which was in an almost straight lino from the mouth of the mine wore I shuttered in lact the explosion shook the earth for miles around Two men named LoutS itoive raad i Gus Boughmere had just got out Qf the mine or the fatality would have been greater I An inquest was held Sunday morning before T i P Page county coroner Wilstead Joseph I 1 Cocklet and T Edmunds were sworn in is jurors The verdict was to the effect that the I deceased came to their deaths by n explosion I I from an unknown cause and ihit no blame was I attached to any one W T LAMPII |