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Show FOUR MM DIE AT Reci HIS MINE Explosion Injured Twenty-Four Miners, Who Were Waiting Wait-ing Shaft Lift. STATE MINE INSPECTOR. INVESTIGATING CAUSE Miners Say It Was Powder, and Not Dust, That Exploded. Ex-ploded. Special to The Tribune. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Sept. 13. Twenty-four of the miners Involved In the explosion in Mine No. 10, which occurred oc-curred .Thursday, arc In the State hospital. hos-pital. Some of them will bo out In a day or two, others In a week, but several sev-eral have Injuries that make their condition con-dition prccarlons. The moat seriously injured in-jured are: THOMAS DICKSON, arm broken In two places: abdomen burned; probably Internally In-ternally injured. MATTHIiW ANDKRSON, broken shoul-I shoul-I dor: arm broken In two places; badly burned. JOE MARUSIfAK, feared fatally burned. GEORGE CRESHAGE, dangerously burned. Many of the sufferers, victims of the accident, have Ilrst and second degree burns, and several Japanese have broken limbs, but only the four named are regarded re-garded by the hospital physicians as being In any danger. Mine Inspector Investigating. State Mine Inspector D. M. Ellas, of this city, Is Investigating the disaster with a committee representing the United MIno Workers and a committee from the company. It la hoped to ascertain as-certain the cause of tho explosion. The old miners declare the explosion was not, wholly clue to the causes announced an-nounced from the company's offices. The accident was very peculiar In Its character char-acter and there ta room to doubt the ex- 1 planatlon already given. At A o'clock Thursday thirty miners were at the three hundred yard distance in the shaft of No. 10. They were waiting wait-ing for the lift lo take them out, their work being over. Six cars of a seven car trip broko loose nnd started down a decline, ending where the miners were huddled. In their accelerating Journey they Jumped tho track and struck about twenty yards from the group. Instantly Instant-ly there was a terrible explosion that wrecked the mine limbering, the cars, and prostrated the men. It wos over In a flash and of Uie thirty In the group only six escaped injury serious enough to require hospital attention. Work of Rescue. Word. of. tho explosion praad,. rapidly, and every one hurried to assist In the roscue. The men wore taken out tenderly ten-derly and transferred In the most convenient con-venient conveyances to the hospital. Most of the Injurlos arc from burns and It required all the skill and endurance of tho hospital forces during the entlro night to dress them. Today the patients had all been attended properly and were doing well. Old miners say tho explosion was not caused by their lamps igniting coal dust which had been thrown up by the cars In their runaway trip. This was ths official of-ficial explanation. The miners say there was a distinct odor of blasting powder after tho explosion and that several kegs, for the use of the night shift, wore either In tho supposed empty cars or were at the side of the track where they struck. It Is this difference of opinion that State inspector 12111s and the committees are now trying to determine. |