Show f 4 hundred DEAD MINERS explosion ion in the vulcan at U 1 newcastle colo i i ati hope cherished that any of the men gell will be found alive one man blown out and died soon afir t explosion believed to have B been cen caused by internal fires in that district denver deliver feb 20 A special to the e alvs from fro newcastle col says A an n plo on occurred at the vulcan mine hio 1120 this morning which was the 0 ost disastrous ever known in fit tile the his ir ry of 0 this camp tonight dozens of limet lues in our little city ate ale desolate icausi cause ot of some loved one fabb father or hus nd md brother or son who this t morning t their homes with not a thought of nger inger or the awful death that so surely jilted them and are now lying lifeless the bottom of the vulcan slope A all business is practically suspended arone m one is dazed at the awfulness of e sudden disaster no warning was ren on the peaceful villagers until a sud 11 report as ae from a hundred cannons sounded 0 throughout the valley mak g the earth tremble people rushard t of homes and places of business to e what had bad happened and one look yard ward the vulcan mine was sufficient r a dense cloud of smoke issuing front from e mouth of tile the slope met the eyes of e gazers and told the tale talc of death deabi A throng of people were soon at the cleof cne of disaster disa stera a distance of nearly TO rollies rom blics lies from new castle A glance as enough to dissipate any hope for the ves Cs of the entombed men the force the explosion had caused a 9 cave in id d the tunnel and air gilr courses were led ed etli with the ilia fallen rock earth and bers both fan houses were wreck I 1 and the slope and vicinity were so 11 II of debris and the ilia gas so bad tint that it is s hard and dangerous work ork to begin e rescue nevertheless willing hands re soon at work and five men went wn as tar far as bleto ascertain the edition of the slope and found it such I 1 it t it will III require much labor to regain miners iners in the gas was so bad that er the party had got feet they re compelled to recede the party aristed of superintendent herrick errick II of e vulcan and john evans william ese are sam sain hills and robert temple an from the consolidated mine the t named mine shut down immediately on ion hearing ot of the disaster and sent air entire force of iao men to help acue the unfortunate ones the con ruction of a temporary fan house was millen ced at once and the work of limping fresh air into the mine will 1111 it begin it is hardly possible that I 1 y of the miners are arc still mill alive but tile the arting of the tans fang will be made as is soon i possible in the hope that it if any have revived they may be kept alive until rip ap reaches them the only man who got out of the mine the time lime the explosion occurred was ll 11 I 1 welch N who was near the ilia mouth of a tunnel and was blown out his skull ing fractured arm broken the face idly aly cut and burned and all the halabe g burned from his head lie ile was caching when found but expired short after without regaining conscious SS TWO young nil miners ners tom connelly rid id james petrie met with narrow es as becoming sore they ape pes their eyes ill it work in the mines and had just berged from the tunnel when tile the explosion occurred the cause ot of the explosion inot ilot is yet cnown the coal fields in which the alcan mine is located have been trou brou led with subterranean fires tor for many ears cars in man many places over a distance eighty toan hundred in rocks bince the sued front rom crevices auntry unity was first know knon n to white mans man lid id in late years more than one kalua be a mine has been destroyed by fire into the workings orIn gr little over of the V vulcan had byear year ago the ilia mines j be flooded on oil tills this dc account count and the ald d workings have never been reopen re open oc accident i r t it IF in thought one erred being a new lat the disaster may it aay have been caused immense 11 pocket bocket of y breaking into an everlasting in fires these is as generated by 0 on february 8 state coal mine in III the wine mine and peeler inspected and conditions condition renounced it it in splendid do done ne at all he work is said to have been ime r mes in III the most c careful sit manner annet to c the number of victims cannot be from ac running iura irately tely stated slated estimates best informed fly to seventy venty te those between hink ink the number is very likely at excitement aty and the live sixty efforts to ae secure resent is so intense that a complete list is i useless ua eless |