Show FORTY f I ERS INJURED Explosion of Dust in Rock Springs Mine Caused by Runaway Cars Special to The Herald Rock Bock Springs Wyo Sept 12 Forty men were Injured twenty of them seri serl seriously seriously by an explosion of coal dust in mine No 10 of the Union Pacific Coal COllI company at 4 this afternoon The explosion was caused by a string of ot five runaway cars which dashed down the slope on the rails for co feet jumped the track and continued several hundred feet reet farther on the floor of the slope raising a dense cloud of coal dust At Atthe Atthe Atthe the mouth of entry No 3 forty miners were waiting to be hauled to the sur surface surface face Their lamps ignited the dust cloud and a terrific explosion occurred Every Everyman Everyman Everyman man was burned and battered and a scorn scort were seriously hurt The mine timbers at the point were destroyed and a anum num nurn number ber ben of heavy heay doors were blown out The damage is not sufficient to cripple mine When news of the explosion spread through the town intense excitement was caused It being reported that a gas ex explosion had killed nearly every man in inthe Inthe inthe the mine The arrival of or the injured at atthe atthe atthe the surface caused great relief Twenty of the victims of the explosion are at atthe atthe atthe the State hospital and the remainder at their homes |