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Show WORKMEN ARE BLOWN TO BITS Seven Miners Hilled in tieinze Property. Remains of Unfortunates Taken From Place in Sacks. Armful of Dynamite Sticks Carried by Miner Probably Ignited by Candle He Carried. BUTTE. Mont . May 12 Seven men were killed and one was Injured, probably proba-bly fatally, In an explosion In the Corra mine of the Big Heinae properties at S o'clock this afecrnoon. Dead. DANIEL O'BRIEN JOHN I P'l ' LA MAN, R, H. HILL DAVE GILL. NELS YVA.MPA JOHN KB AM BR DANIEL HA) LEY Injured. HUOH MOD, lip. conousslon of the brnln; believed fatal. Carried Aiinful of Dynamite. The cause of the explosion Is not known and can only be surmised. Nels Warn pa was carrvlng nn armful of about forty sticks of dvnainlte. approximately twenty-live twenty-live pounds, to his friends f'.r blast purposc-s. He was climbing U ladder 1500 feet under ground lo Join his companions on tho MOO-toot level, whan tht dynamite exploded With terrific force. Touched It With Candle. It is believed that Warn pa cither touched his candle to tho powder or elso some hot candle grease fell on It, causing It to explode. Wumpa w,iv blown to nils, fragments of him being found several hundred feet away. Remains Fill Seven Sacks. Two men working mar by were also blown to puces, their remains lining seven sacks. Pour others working about r feet distant dis-tant were instantly killed, thotih'li thell bodies w re not mutlllated. Littered With Human Fragments. The drift On which the unfortunate men wore wanking waa completely llt-i, llt-i, red with human fragments, While Eoreman Thomas Varden was groping In the dense smoke in an effort to reach the nu n lil- band e.un, 1 - i , i with something soli, which upon Investigation In-vestigation proved to be half of the top of Wumpa s load, hanglmr '" n el.eirlc light wire ovei hundred feet distant from the scene of the explosion. Overcome by the Sight. Several Of the rescuing party were overcome over-come by the t rrlbio light |