Show FOU ARE DEAD TWO IJURED Fearful Gas Explosion in a I Coal Mine at Sopris I Colorado DEATH CAME UNHERALDED Bodies Were Badly Burned and I Blackened I Position of tho Corpses When Found Showed That the Men Were at Work When the Explosion Occurred Occur-red but HQTT to Account for i Is the Problem asthe Mine Was Well Ventilated and Free From Gas Denver May 10A special to > the News from Trinidad Colo says A terrible gas explosion occurred this morning at 4 oclock in the mines of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at Sopris which resulted in the instant in-stant death of four persons and the injury of two others The dead are Sylvester Cox leaves wife and one child John Labaun unmarried Albert Laemmenringer leaves wife and three children Bias Rococomich leaves a wife and three children Injured J R Reynolds seriously burned Albert Lloyd slightly burned and bruised The position of all the bodies when found showed that the men were at work when the explosion occurred They were lying across the track near the car which they had been using us-ing and evidently met their fate unwarned un-warned of any danger They all were badly burned and blackened from the explosion j I is thought that the fire originated j in the accumulation of coal and ignited ig-nited froirr miners lamp as none of the mines in this region have ever I been troubled with ga and the ventilation ven-tilation of the Sopris mine is good Had the explosion occurred ocurred during i the daytime when the men were l j at work the results would have been frightful as ordinarily from 200 to 300 men are employed In the mines |