| Show MINE NO 1 I WILL WLl WILLBE BE ABANDONED Many Damage Suits to Be Filed on Account of the Hanna Disaster BODIES S RECOVERED OTHERS LIKELY TO REMAIN BE BELOW BELOW BELOW LOW SOME TIME Hanna lIanna Wyo March 30 The bodies of ot o only five of ot the miners and mine officials killed In the th mine mineNo mineNo mineNo No 1 of the Union Pacific Coal company by y the two explosions Saturday have been recovered Other bodies will probably not lot ot be reached for several days The widows and orphans are being cared for and there Is no destitution Tho The local lodges of Knights of Pythias Odd Fellows and United Mine Workers of ot America Amerla today toda met and made arrange arrangements arrangements arrangements ments to bury their dead members and provide for the stricken families CamillIs The official force of the three local mines was completely wiped out by the tho disaster From Superintendent Briggs and his lis three foremen down to tim the gas watch watchers ers era stable bosses and others all are dead and md complete reorganization of oC the work ing In force Coree will be necessary The entire official family of the United Mine Workers also is enrolled on the ros roster roster roster ter of the dead I Two of the women who lost husbands in inthis Inthis 1 this disaster were also made widows by bythe bythe the calamity at the same mine five fhe years ago Entrances of led The entrances of the mine minI where the th dead miners are entombed have been seal sealed sealed sea ed and until the fire Ire is smothered or ox orsome orsome some method Is devised for tor lifting the th lethal gases which fill the workings and an I it becomes possible to go down the slope and fight the flames at close quarters no effort to enter the mine will be mad made for Cor certain death undoubtedly would await those who dared Jared venture Meanwhile great reat forces of oC men are arc la Ia boring at both entrances removing remor remo ing wreckage So titanic were the blasts of burning gas that the lining of the was stripped and hurled forth Corth to tc fall In fragments over a wide expanse of ol prairie Timbers as large as telegraph olI I poles were thrown 1000 feet Ceet from the pit Other Mines to Be Opened This morning the task of at restoring some som semblance e of organization to the perma permanent permanent permanent nent and temporary populations of oC the th thI camp were undertaken and arrangements I are in progress for the opening of the No Noa 3 a mine long die idle and for working No 2 which produces a quality of coal inferior nor to that from the wrecked No 1 With the fate tatt of their comrades so fresh in ii their minds the of oC No 2 are ar somewhat reluctant to return tb their per ilous occupation and it is probable that the mines mine will not be producing steadily before beCore the end of the week Meanwhile the production of oC the camp will be cur tailed about 1000 tons weekly week I Bodies Viewed by Coroner Coroner Bennett has viewed the three thre bodies recovered before the second ex explosion explosion explosion and the tho two brown out by the th second explosion He wilt will begin an in inquest Inquest inquest quest when it is known whether or not the remaining bodies can be recovered and will attempt to get at the cause of the explosion Men who came from the mine a few Cew minutes before the first ex cx explosion explosion say there was as much gas pres present present present ent The second explosion undoubtedly was wal caused by gas The condition of oC the bodies recovered precludes the possibility that any of the themen themen themen men in the mine survived the second ex cx explosion explosion An official list of ot the known victims of or the disaster given out today by the Un ion Pacific Coal company contains sixty two names and it is believed that eight or ten others also alo met death in the mine carload A of coffins shipped from Den Denver Denver Denver ver arrived this afternoon Suits for Damages Many suits for damages will be brought at once against the coal company by b rel relatives relatives relatives of the victims and it is estimated ed that this tills double disaster will cost the operators not less than The holo holocaust holocaust holocaust caust of 1903 cost the company com pan more than It is announced now that this will be abandoned and sealed as soon as the bodies are recovered There is talk of oC petitioning the govern governor or to appoint a commission of experts to probe this disaster and if It J the rumors afloat as to the unsafe condition of the tue colliery are verified their efforts will 1111 be made to close It through process of oC law |
