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Show BODIES OF VICTIMS EMM TO CRISP Later Reports Show 'Red Lodge Mine Disaster Not Due to Old Fire, HELENA, Mont., Nov. 21. A special spe-cial to the Eecor.d from Bed Lodge says tbat nine persons lost their lives as the result of the fire in ,the coal mines of the Northwestern Improvement Improve-ment company. Three bodies havo been recovered, but those of tho others are believed to be irretrievably buried beneath be-neath thousands of tons of earth and burned to a crisp. All of thc victims, I with one exception, were Finns. Save, for the prompt action- of the compan3-'s officers, thc fire would have developed into one of the worst casualties casual-ties in tho history of the Northwest. North-west. "When it was realized the mine was afire the air currents were reversed, re-versed, the deadly fumes driven from the hundred or more miners, instead of being forced in their direction. Tho six men who last night were reported as missing attempted to escape through tunnel No. '2, instead of going by way of tho air shaft. Thov were overtaken by the flames and suffocated. The cause of tho fire, it develops, originated from a miner's lamp setting the timbering afiro. and was not due to the slum'uenng fire which has been hermetically sealed for years. ' State Mine Inspector McDermott left Helena today to conduct an official inspection, in-spection, as did Thomas Gibson, presi-' dent of the United Miuo Workers for Montana and Wj-omine. 1 2 |