Show ELEVEN MINERS PERISH Die in Lavson Colliery at Black Diamond Wash MINE IS BADLY WRECKED Explosion ofFire Damp Causes Death and Destruction to Property Fortunately No Firo Was Started Uisastor Occurred on the Fourth Level of tho Mine Sixteen Hundred Feet Below the Surface Considerable Consider-able Delay Experienced in Reaching Reach-ing Point Where Bodies Arc Black Diamond Washington Oct H 1 Eleven men wcro killed and three Injured in nn explosion of lire damp on time fourth level 1600 reel below tho aurface at time Lawson mine a mile from tide place about D oclock last night nlshtDBAD DEAD John Swaneon married wife and ono child In Norway Robert Launbcrrr single Joseph Jockl married Frank Fllndcr nlnsle Frank Groshell married ono child John Croxhlnd single Simon Trcslvcz married four children Loulo TJockman married Ed Rcccl single Ed Appleton married Hugh Lavandar single INJURED Chris Baker slightly burned about the face James Carson seriously burned about the head hand burned and Injured Internally Inter-nally William Whltsntll nllchtly burned Of the Injured VhItsnell was able lo go home tonight Baker and Carson are at nn Improvised hospital Both will recover recov-er The bodies of Ihc dead miners aro now In limo hands of the undertakers WEBB INSTANTLY KILLED The men employed In tin xvorklngs or chutes were Instantly killed Two eang vaymcn and a driver working further In the level or gangway evidently escippd the effect of tho oxploslon and Instinctively Instinc-tively started toward the slope for mi faty Time deadly afterdump swept < loxvn on them and they succumbed after not more than a few minutes struggle against tho fate their experience an miners told them lay in store for them SEVERAL BODIES BURNED Those miners whoso bodies were burned were discovered lying In cramped position po-sition their legs closely drawn up to vard their bodies and their hands clinched Dust covered their faces so they were unrecognisable when flrtt taken from the mine Their clothea were torn and thickly coated by coal diml The oilier bodies were not disfigured |