Show SEVEN IE MEN BLOWN UP El Sixteen Others Injured Some of Them Seriously MINE HAS CAVED IN Accident Occurred in a Drying Magazine The Third Mine Horror in Montana in Three WeeUs Theories as to the Exact Cause of the One at Keihart Early Yesterday MorningS Morning-S Other Disasters of a Day HELENA Mont April 18News was received here this morning that sometime some-time last night a powder magazine belonging to the Broadwatsr grouo of mines near Neihart exploded Six men are known to be killed and one is missing miss-ing sixteen were injured many seriously seri-ously This is the third serious mine accident in this state in two weeks The death list is now placed at seven as follows l Killed Frank Moran W J Morri son Hugh McKenzie Dan OLeary D P Rose John Cairns James T Gallagher Galla-gher The seriously wounded are Joseph Doran James Connelly George Doran a brother of Frank C Smith Mike L Loban and Matt Brown Many others are cut and bruised The accident occurred in magazine used for thawing powder Frank Doran Do-ran was looking after the powder and had just commenced loading the magazine maga-zine when the explosion occurred I is supposed his candle ignited the powder pow-der He was found twenty feet from the magrazine another drift He must have seen danger and tried to escape The men had just finished their midnight lunc and were on the way back to work thirty had to pass the magazine and it exploded as half of them were past Those in the center are dead and seriously wounded The mine has badly caved in Superintendent Superinten-dent Cooney savs there could not be over thirty oounds of powder in the magazine Doran leaves a wife and I two children the others are single men most of them had resided here I but a short time |