Show GIANT POWDER EXPLODES Charles Smith Has Narrow Es sape F r nl Death in Co Columbus Columbus lumbus Con Mine i Charles Smith mule team driver in the Colu Columbus bus Consolidated mine at Al la IS thinking his luck lucky stars these the days das Last week he came caine the nearest to death he Will ever be and still remaIn on thIs ter sphere While driving a mine train of nine cars loaded with giant powder Into the tunnel of the mine Smith suffered the experIence of having heyIng one of tile the cars overturn The dynamite ex exploded exploded hurling Smith back a distance of forty tort feet He wac wa stunned and bruised but not seriously hurt of the other cars c ef dynamite exploded It Is due tl to this one miraculous cIrcumstance that Smith owes his life Ufe As the train was traveling between shafts Nos 2 and 3 of the mine Smith says the mules he was suddenly halted This caused the cars In the hindermost part Dart of the train to collide with those In fn fro front t A small reck had evidently become lodged on the track causing one of the cars to overturn WIth terrific force a deafening roar the dynamite exploded d Smith was thrown backwards and was picked up some seine min minutes mm utes later by some ome of his fellow work workmen workmen men In an unconscious condition H lc WS I Inot not hurt to an any e extent tent At 0 t the place of I the explosion the tunnel walls walIs were ton tori down a great hole being made there The mutes mules were hurled violently agaInst the walls of the tunnel but were nut not hurt Thy the other cars of d dynamite did not explode Is the mystery of Alta Alia Each car had bad on it of giant pw t to wreck any ordinary building Had all exploded It is POssible that all the men In shaft No would have been Imprisoned and great loss of life nIght might have bave resulted |