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Show W MIXERS ARE miLEHT BLAST Explosion Occurs in Primero Mine of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. NUMBER OF THE VICTIMS NOT YET ASCERTAINED Company Refuses to Allow Details De-tails of Disaster to Be 1 Made Public. TRINIDAD, Colo., an. 23. An explosion explo-sion occurred in a Colorado & Fuel company, mine at Primero (his morniii" and seventeen miners arc reported lo liavo been killed. It; is said the death list may even exceed tweuty. Division Superintendent O'Neil, with several physicians, loft here on a special spe-cial train at. S o'clock today for Primero. Pri-mero. The explosion occurred in the main entry, and is supposed to have been caused by a windy shot. The body of Frank Ilobat, timherman, has been recovered. re-covered. Groat exeitomeut prevails at Primero. Primero is twenty miles west of Trinidad and is ono of the most important impor-tant coal camps of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company. Tho company owns tho only tolegrapli connecting with the camp and will nJlow no news concerning concern-ing tho disaster to bo sent out, except to the company's oflicors. The Colorado telephone has a telephone wire to tho camp, but tho Primero oflico is in tho Fuel company's store, and tho employ-ess employ-ess there aro not. permitted to give any information. Mine Badly Caved In. Later reports say the Primero mine is badly caved in and as y-,t it. has been impossible to gain tin ontrance. The explosion occurred at. 3 o'clock this morning. The miners employed on tho night shift are in tho habit, of going homo any time after midnight, when they have taken out the required amount of coal. This circumstance makes it impossible to learn tho exact numbnr of doad until the mine can bo completely explored. Jt is believed thcro were at least twenty men in the miue. Women and children arc gathered about the mine entrance seeking for husbands, fathers and brothers. Miners havo been called from adjoining camps to assist in tho work of rescue All the dead nre believed to be foreigners. |
