Show TWO ILI KILLED LLE D in an asphaltum utah nov 24 rr c pe ial A heavy aheady explosion occurred at the st louis gilson asphaltum ro mine three miles from fort ducheane Duc heans at this afternoon in which w aich two men were killed and three 1 others slightly Blixtt ly injured the killed ere are charles anderson agel aged SO 30 of ashley atao and andy garns garna of park city utah anderson An derBon leaves a wife end and four young children garns is dunmar ried ned both were working wording in the mine when W hen the explosion occurred the injured are three freighters iram price utah named warren and bunce the name nam a of the other not being known they were standing about yards from the mine and were struck by fly ing tim fsr their injuries are very slight the espos expos ex on was waa terrific the report being heard beard distinctly at vernal thirty miles away all the buildings at fort duchaine Duch asne were shaken and man many of the window glasses broken I 1 the explosion was caused by the combustion of asphaltum asphalt nm dast arid and gas the mice immediately took fire the heat was so ao intense that it is ia impossible to get et near it fi fimea rising from all three of the shafts one hundred feet in the air and there Is no possie a way of ex them it is Is not probable that the bodies of anderson or garns gains will ever be rc recovered over as they must mast have hare been cremated by the flames fl arnes the entire command from the fort were mounted and hurried to the scene of disaster but werl wen unable to render any assistance the ibe nearest water ia a two miles ds distant tant and if it were possible to turn the Du chesus chestis river into the mine it is doubtful if it would extinguish the flames fiddes at after burning three floars it shows no B alim W 0 abatement mr bert the mine superintendent eu perin and tom taylor manager were returning from salt luke where they had been sum donad as biti eases in in a suit fir damages caused by a similar explosion about two yeats years figo fago they haya have not yet reached the mine |