Show PERISHED if A IN MINE AT HANNA WyO YO Over Fifty Killed Kin d in Second Explosion Belonged to Gallant Party Engaged in Rescue lescue Work Usual Heartrending Scenes at the Mouth of the Pit Widows and Orphans WeepIng for Lost Hus Hiis Husbands r i i bands and Fathers I I Special to The Herald Hanna Wyo Wo March one men are ure known to have lost their lives Jives in mine No 1 of the Union Pa Pacific Coat Coal oal company here although only names arc are obtainable Sev coffins collins have haxe been to tofia no The bodies of Alexander Ten and Matt Huhtala of the fia I If party were found at daylight f 1 et t from the east slope alope having been blown from the mine by the second explosion which snuffed out the lives of m fre than fifty men Tennants head could not be found and one arm was some distance from the body bod hody was horribly mangled Warburton Munson and Perry were taken out last night All were badly burned and all those still in the mine have llac been given up T for dead Rescuers Working Heroically The rescuing party part is working he hero hero ro cally but the bodies will probably not be reached for tor several days das as it will tit be necessary to close the west slope and smother the fires below belov the tenth level and then draw off the large quantities of or gas before entering I Ithe the colliery Of Ot the dead men fully SO SQ SOper SOPer per pr cent were married men and practically practically all leave children All but three men u 11 In official capacities in the three were killed Including the super superintendent superA A foreman fire bosses gas wati watchers hers and others The second ex explosion explosion explosion was wa due duo to tl t the carelessness of the relief relict Workers who rushed into the workings unorganized without a aleader eador leader and attempted to brattice off ot some of the entries In which there thero were large quantities of gas gIU this gas being forced Into the fire area and ex expIrIng pl This one mine has claimed rii re than victims during the tWenty years ears of ot operation n MANY WIDOWS AND ORPHANS f Wildest Excitement ment Prevails in the Little Coal Camp Cheyenne Wyo ro March 29 Be Between tween and seventy men lost their lives In two explosions in coal coalmine coalmine coalmine mine No 1 owned by b the Union Pa Pacific cHic Coal company at Hanna yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day afternoon and last night The ex explosions explosions were caused by gas and coal dust and each was waa followed by b fire The first occurred oc at 3 when e mineworkers including a superintendent and three bosses were killed The Tte second explosion occurred at last night snuffing out the lives of from forty to fifty mem members members members bers of Or t a rescue party part including State Mine Inspector D M Elles The names of the men killed in the first explosion were ascertained from the books but those of the res rescuers rescuers cuers were not known as no record was ns as kept of those who volunteered for this dangerous work The wildest excitement prevailed to today today today day In Hanna and at the mine where hundreds are congregated including widows children and other relatives of ot the victims Men and women are run running running ning about wringing their thell hands and andIng Ing while many man little children separated from their mothers in the thc condition that prevails are sobbing and trembling in fear Alter After the second explosion addition additional al appeals were telegraphed to all sur sut surrounding surrounding rounding towns for assistance One train is being rushed west from Oma Omaha Omaha Omaha ha carrying officials of the Union Pa Pacific cine railroad and the Union Pacific Coal company compan 1 Rescue Work Hazardous The regular force of men employed at mines Nos 2 and 3 were pressed into rescue work which is extremely difficult and hazardous The bodies of four of th tM eighteen men who lost their lives in the first explosion were located last night but owing to the volume of ot gas which threatened to explode at any moment no effort was made to remove them to the surface Fire Started a Week Ago Fire started in the colliery last Sunday since which time regular intervals have been made to extinguish it Yesterday it was deemed unsafe to send the miners down Into the workings and they the were notified not to report for duty dut Superintendent Briggs with a team of picked men the best and an most experienced experienced experienced hands in the camp went Into the mine to fight the fire but at 2 the flames had become beyond their thell control and at 3 con connected connected connected with the gas and a terrific explosion followed The vic vie victims victims tims were all below the tenth level leveland leveland leveland and It is likely that the flames have consumed the corpses DEAD AND MISSING Exact Number of Men in Rescue Party Unknown Denver Colo Cob March Marli 23 A Republican lican liean JI special from Hanna Wyo WO says sa that tha a carefully prepared list of the I missing Ing as a result of the two expo explosions I yesterday In mine No 1 of the Union Pacific Coal company contains names and ami of this number five dead bodies have been recovered Before further attempt at rescuing the dead lead can be made the fire tire in the tenth level which was the direct cause of the two explosions must be extin extinguished extinguished Work Vork to this end consumed the entire day da effort being directed especially to closing the west which it is hoped will eventually smother the raging flames The Known Dead Robert Warburton Peter Munson Alexander Matt Huhtala Benjamin Perry The Thc Missing David Da Id Elias state mine inspector Alexander Briggs mine superintend superintendent ent Joseph Burton Alfred Dodds Dodde James Knox I IGus Gus Ramie RanIe Rn le leP P A Cappa Lahti Continued on Page 2 I i I I I I I 71 PERISHED IN MINE AT HANNA WYOMING Continued from Page 1 John Emile Self rust Thomas Flint John Evans Robert Herron Harry Lyons Jacob RImmer Y f William Pascoe Richard Wilson Frank Collins Peter Travis TravisA A Dodds Charles Hughes H Alfred Holliday Samuel McCormick z L Corty Carty 11 John William Johnson r Albert Riley Burt Fink Grant G rant Routt c cE E E Franti Frantl t Isaac 4 1 f It Andrew Birchall L Henry Henr H IJ Birchall I t James M Hey Hoy Ho 11 Andrew Roy Hoy Ho Harry Foster tf John Tate l James Smeaton j oi v William Burns A Madden Charles Harris f John Arthurs Isaac Penn f Emile Hendrickson John Cookson William Joki Jokl John Tull Chris Ferguson Robert flobert Armstrong Samuel Cundy Victor Cundy Thomas Cundy Cund Samuel Jacobs Went Back and Perished It was while Superintendent Briggs Brigga and seventeen companions were fight fightIng lug Ing the fire at the tenth level yester yesterday yesterday ester day da afternoon that the first explosion of gas But one man Is known to have escaped death who was with this party This was Charles Harris colored After going to his home to notify his family of his es as escape escape cape Harris returned into the mine with the rescuing party organized by b State Mine lIne Inspector Elais to recover the bodies of 0 the unfortunates who met death from the first explosion Harris name appears in the list of missing suiting from the ex explosion explosion According to the story of Alfred Campbell who reached the en entrance entrance entrance trance to the mine with the bodies of Warburton Munson and Perry killed in the first explosion and thereby es escaped escaped escaped death himself Inspector Elias Ellas scattered the tho member of or the rescue party through the entrance for a dis distance distance distance tance of 1500 feet teet removing wreckage and making temporary repairs of ot damage caused by the first explosion Someone Seme ne Blundered The fire at the tenth level bevel was rag raging ragIng ragIng ing furiously and Inspector Elms Elias and several others with him discussed the wisdom of ot bratticing No 8 entrance It was decided that this would be sui sat suicidal suicidal as the gas would be forced back onto the fire at the tenth level bevel and would probably cause an explosion more terrific and direful than the one which had already snuffed out the lives of nearly a score of or their com coin comrades rades r des The party continued to work their way wa slowly toward the fire abandoning the idea of closing No S 8 entrance way It Is thought however that some of the stragglers straggler in the rear struck with the same idea of ot cutting ort oft the spread of or gas by b closing this entrance imme immediately Immediately Immediately put the plan Into effect effe t the result as reasoned out by Inspector Elias Ellas and his immediate followers Be that as it may the second explosion oc occurred occurred occurred and although it is known pra that persons met m t death In the two explosions preparations preparation tion are arc being made to care for more than this number of dead bodies s should It become necessary ary Already Alrea y seventy have been delivered here and it nay ay become necessary to use all of ot them Number of Rescuers Unknown The reason that no definite estimate of at the number In the mine when Ute time second explosion occurred can be made madela m de deh la is that the rescue party was made Up tip hurriedly h and arid many who went into the mine entered after nIter the first regularly organized squad had been inside the th mine several Beveral minutes It is known t Il t ta a dozen or more of ot the ther rescuers were sent back to the surface to get sup Slip supplies plies piles and tools with which to work works Campbell remembers rs that this order onar was given an antl believes believe that the men f I I started on their errand He does not recall who they w WeI were re and Is not sure ante that they ever eer reached the outside If It so they perhaps had tad not had time to reenter the mine and therefore es escaped escaped These confusing contusing circumstances make it difficult to approximate the number of or men in the tIme mine when the second and more explosion sion slon occurred Two Bodies Discovered It n was not until daylight that the bodies of Alexander Tennant and Matt Huhtala were found and they were discovered lying on the upraise some distance from the entrance from the casts lope Tennants head and tine one arm was blown off of and holy buly was horribly mangled also v Tennants head has not been found as yet The dismembered arm ann was found quite a distance from where the rest lest of or the he body was picked up This evidence of the terrific force tOrce accompanying the time second explosion makes certain that thit none can possibly have lived through it and if so the deadly gases thit spread throughout the quickly nu na them Not One Craven That none none hesitated in responding to the call for tor volunteer in the rescue re cue of their fellow workmen after the first t explosion is 15 shown In the tho fact that not a working official of ot the three mines of the Union Pacific Coal Coat com corn company company pany in this camp is left All were in inthe inthe inthe the mine seeking to aid their stricken friends when the second explosion transformed mine No 1 into a sham shamble shamble shamble ble bleA A further evidence that the leaders of the men of the camp were there Is 15 shown In the fact that every official member of the local lodge of United Mine Workers of America is missing supposedly dead In the mine disaster brings the time number of victims of explosions In mine No 1 during the twenty years ears of Its Us opera operation operation operation tion to the neighborhood of The Th greatest previous loss of life occurred on June 30 men fell felt vic victims victims tims to deadly gas |