Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-20 | Page 1 | Seventy Lives Lost in Mine Explosion

i- SEVENTY LIVES LOST 4-IN 4-IN MINE EXPLOSION -r WIG AN, Eng., Aug. 19. It is ! not believed that a singlo man ! of tho seventy minors who wove ; V- entombed by an explosion which -? I- occurred yesterday in tho May-' May-' pole coal mine hero intrvivccl tho -i--J disaster. Tho four men reported v I- rescued, yesterday wero engaged v 4- in an adjoining building. ; The vontllating fan, which i was put out of order by the v I- explosion, was ropairod this ! ! moniing, and the mine having v r- been clcarod of gases tho rcscuo -; party again descended. The 'I- sight wldch mot thoir eyes was ! ! horrifying. Not far from tho I- bottom of the shaft oightoon v I- bodies were found, all fright--J fully mutilated, legs and arms ! I- having boon blown off aud hcjTds I' battered almost beyond rccogui- -r- tion, -r ! The management of tho mino -r dcclai'cr. that between sixty and ! -l seventy men wero underground -I- at the time of the explosion, and that thoro in no liopo that any of them would bo brought - out alive. Tho women and cliil- ; -r dron, however, who remained at I tho pithead all night, refused to I lcavo until the bodies of their dead aro brought to tho surface. ! ! Nothing clr.c will convince thorn of tho hopelossness of waiting. : .j.