Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-01-19 | Page 1 | Six Miners Die in Explosion

rSosioN powder Magazine Blows Up, S Killing Workmen by Force Hj of Concussion. f h1h OTHERS IN THE MINE I TAKEN OUT UNINJURED goroner and State Officials Will i; Hold Inquiry as to Cause of fi Accident. u V HELENA, Mont., Jan. 18. Ab a result if. an explosion In tlio Keating- mine at Radersbure, forty miles from horc, about. !;30 o'clock tills afternoon, six miners Ire dead, two are badly injured and there 6 an unconfirmed rumor that two more pen who are missing are somewhere in he workings. ilha dead are: Ed -Ryan, shift boss, ' irricd; Dan Ryan, "his brother, married; ;n White. Percy Way, Louis Tucker d Harry Abott, married. The injured. . John Russell, both arms broken, andl 5X Westlakc. leg broken. Pending an in vestlpat ion of tho ex-islon, ex-islon, the officials of the Keating Gold nlns company refrained from making y statement regard Inj? the accident, lcr than tlie barest announcement that men had been killed and injured, and it no one below the 300-foot level of : mine was Injured. All of the bodies re recovered. The men working below the 300-foot el were taken out through other means egress than the main shaft. The impression around Radersburg is it the powder magazine in tho mine iloded. This magazine, which was d to havn contained between 500 and pounds of dynamite, was on the 200-tt 200-tt level, and the men were killed by i concussion. Che force of the explosion was fell miles around, "our of the men killed and two in-ed in-ed were working in the 300-foot level. Ryan and Abbott were working in the in shaft at the entrance to the level, ih the exception of Ryan, whoso face 1 body were mutilated by a cave-In lowing the explosion, none of the lies were disfigured. I'he coroner of Broadwater county, in lch the Keating mine is located, has m notified, and will hold an inquest, itu Mine Inspector William Walsh will ve on an early train tomorrow morn- for the scene of the disaster. 'he Keating mine is one of tho biggest d producers in the state and Is opcrat-hy opcrat-hy the Keating Gold Mining company, which M. D. Greaves Is superlnten-