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Show SEVEN MINING MEN ARE BUM II) BITS Driver of Motor Car Rims Machine Ma-chine Directly Into Dynamite Dyna-mite Explosion. R. P. COLEMAN OF SALT LAKE NUMBERED AMONG VICTIMS Responsibility Fixed on Man in Charge. Who Ignores Signals Sig-nals of Warning. PHOEXIX. Ariz.. F.b. t. Heedless of (lie warning of a foreman in charge of the excavating operations alonsr tho line of the private motor road from Kelvin to the Ray copper mlucs tho motormnn of a. gasoline car containing six passengers passen-gers ran his car clost; to a sputtering lnsc of n lieuvy charge of dynamite tills afternoon, and the. car and Jta seven oo-cupants oo-cupants .were blown to atoms. The Dead. J. n. novcrc. A. S. B1EDEK. J. C. CrtlF.I'IN. civil entjincor employed by the Itay Consolidated Copper company. com-pany. R. P. COI.KMAN of Salt Lake City. W. II. FREELAN'D. "WALTER C. FRENZ. mining umjlncer employed ly Jlonry Kr.imh and engaged In sampling and development work at tlii" Ray minrs. W. II. LVALL. motorinan of the car. The foroman had discovered a missed shot In the excavation at noon and before be-fore the motor car came In sight ho had relighted the fuse. As the car approached ap-proached he signalled the motormnn and warned him of the pending explosion. Motormnn l-yall. evidently believing that he could lake his car past the charge to safety before the explosion, paid no heed to the warning and started ucaln at full speed. Just as the car was passing the charge the explosion came, and the ear, with Its load of human freight, was blown high in l ho air amid a prcat rloud of debris. Tho men wore all prominent in mining affairs in Arizona. Another May Be Dead. Joyce's home is in Denver. Bieber's in Cleveland and Kronz's,in Berkeley. Cal. The others were not known. The bodies U1I be brought to Phoenix tomorrow. A late dispatch mentions the name of Ben Truax: as among tho dead, making eight, .but it is thought this may bo an error of confusion of names. |