Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-18 | Page 1 | Mine Explosion Kills Four, Two Others Missing

Jc r I MINE KILLS 1 EXPLOSION FOUR TWO I II I i I OTHERS MISSING I II I I I SEATTLE E Wash Dec Dee IS Four Four 1 known dead two others believed dead clad and two injured form the he toll today o of an n explosion in the BurI Burnett Bur Bur- nett mine of the Pacific coast coast coal I company 27 miles milE'S south at 6 p p. p m m. m yesterday The bodies of Charles Charle KirbY BH B. B H Elmer Crippen and ancl Elmer Imer Landis Indis have been brought t to the surface Harry Humecke is Ina in ina ina a hospital here in a a. critical condition condi cond- tion lion and R. R Lazarus also is In the hospital The bodies of ot two of 01 the men menI I remain In the charred and blackened blacken black- black j en ened eel mine They are arc E. E J. J Rush I II I an and T. T i II Rescue workers I were continuing their theIL efforts this I morning to find the remains In the thousands of or tons of rock and coal tha that fell following the tho explosion According to a statement toda today by N. N D. D Moore Seattle president or ethe company who assumed pe per per- social charge of the lie rescue work the cause of the explosion was not known At the tin time 46 men were I at nt work In iu the mine The explosion explosion 1 I sion slon occurred on the number four level level- of or the lie south fouth gangway Allbut Alt All I but eight made their way to the I I surface unaided