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Show CAUSE OF KEMMERER DISASTER Ulil State Mine Inspector BlacKner Arrives for Purpose of Making Investigation. INJURED WILL RECOVER Dead w ill Be Buried at Kern-merer; Kern-merer; Mine Workings Little Lit-tle Damaged. KK.MMKKKR, Wyn .Isn. 51. -The I Ss of the dust explosion In mine So. I of the Kemmerer t'oal COBipan late esterdajTi which caused th death f five men and injured eighteen Others, iiri no yet been determined. The dead, .l.'-tnies Smith, JaffJCB Hansen, Jamee ward, r'eter Landon .mti Thomas T'lvon, nrrp an Americans. They will he burled here. Nine of tho more seriously I injured weir removed today to a hospital gt Rock sprint.", wye. The expiocion occurred in what Is known s Ihe "ne.-nn.l north entry." 100 feel from the main slopr, nrl ionf fpt from the surface. The fon-e of tiK explosion ex-plosion was closely confined, .md only lhoa working In the Immediate vicinity of the rpioiori were Injured. Minors in other portions of the- mine made their way to the surface uninjured. The fans remained In operation, and the damp was oon cleared from the rntrien. The explosion ex-plosion Itself wes i epponsioie for the deaths and Injuries, none being over .line h y a.v Work of Rescue. Ar soon as (he alarm was given, rescue res-cue crowdt were summoned from the other mines of ih Kemmerer t'onl company, com-pany, and the United Stale? mine rescue rnr. stationed at Dlamondvllle, several iniie" away, was rushed to the s-"ene. I,e(j py helmet men from th res?ne car volunteers in.i'i' their wn' with comparatively little difficulty to ine aec otnl in -r 1 1 1 entry and hsnn the Imrne.ti- at" removal of the, Injured. A thorough 'nr. ii of all hr wirklns of the mlm? ' .1 iuhjIo early today, and aM of the llj men In the mine when 'he explosion took place are accounted fm State Mine Inspector George. Blacker) in charge of district No. L, reached Kemmerer Kem-merer today and Immediately iiean an . tmlnation Of the mine to determine 11 f ..ins.- of the explosion. He Was aitlod by Officials of the United States rescue n i . I .i -line Working' were hi'le datn- a ged. None Fatally Hurt. SO7K SPRINGS, WyO., .isn 21 None 01 I he nino mfii who w.to brought to Ihe local hospital suffering from Injuries received In the explosion of the mine of the -Kemmerer Ooul company is fataiiv 1 1 1 j w i 1 . n. ' .ii dime to reports from ihe h ispitsl tonight. The men are; John R.n-ndo. Nat To-mgth, To-mgth, iv) Bklwarde, x. J. Bosworth, William Wil-liam Sullivan, James Do run, unl three .1 ;i i a nose. |