Show WERE ALMOST COOKED An Unusual Accident Occurs In a Butte Mine William GlIlroney and Vllliam Flynn two miners mployed in the Little Lit-tle St Lawrence were terribly burned late yesterday afternoon by an explosion i explo-sion of burning ore tJD the 500foot level of the mine says the Butte InterMountain Inter-Mountain Both men are at the Sisters Sis-ters hospital and are in a serious condition con-dition and little hone ls entert ned for their recovery Gillroney and Flynn were partners and started to work yesterday afternoon after-noon on the S oclock shift About 5 oclock they were sent to the 500foot level to work and arriving there found a fire in the drift The two men immediate went to the station rang for the cage and reported the discovery of the fire II They returned to the level with no line of hose and soon had a stream of water playing on the flames The men had scarcely turned water on when alow rumbling sound came from the debris followed the next moment by an ex jlosion The men we in the drift near the station and Lile force Of the explosion threw them back on the tae With great presence of mind Flynn assisted as-sisted his partner to a safe position on the cage and then gave the signal for the surface J The entire affair was only of a few minutes duration but in that time both men when they reached the surface sur-face were literally parboiled from head to foot On reaching the surface the Sisters ambulance was summoned and both men were removed to the hospital hos-pital When they arrived at the hospital it I as found that Gillroney had sustained the most serious injury HIS head arms body and legs were frightfully burned the only part of his body that had escaied being his hips and feet Flynn was also badly burned bout the limbs by the hot steam and the skin veeled off his body in folds Gill roney is a wIdower about l years of age and resided with an infant child at 227 Anaconda road Flynn is a single man and resided in Duggan s boardinghouse boarding-house in Dublin gulch I |