Show EIGHT DEAD I Ift I 2 MINE BlASTS ON SAME DAY f Three Miners Are Killed t tin in Colorado and Five in Illinois Disasters i LARGE NUMBER ARE INJURED I Safety Measures Believed Believed Responsible for Saving Sav Say ing Mo More e Than 1 1000 TRINIDAD Colo Cob Jan 29 AP AP- AP Three men were killed four were burned seriously and twenty-five twenty or more of thirty three thirty three survivors were were more or less scorched in the explosion explosion sion at the Be Bear r Canon Coal company company com com- pany mine mine near Berwind Colo Cob to to- day Th This s information came in a direct message from the property I la late today e CHICAGO Jan 2 29 AP AP Safety measures saved more than one thousand miners from injury toda today J when five workers were killed in tn fan y f yan an explosion in the Orient mine at 5 West Frankfort one of ot the largest I I in the world George B. B Herrington Herring Herring- ton president of the Chicago Wilmington and Franklin Coal company declared after ater receiving advices of the blast l Fire did not follow th the explosion explosion sion said the advices which added that the safety devices worked perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- shutting ot off the channel in which the explosion occurred The mine had been inspected as asP usual as a matter of oC routine said Mr l Harrington The mine Inspector Inspector inspector in- in had passed through marked off oft this entrance past which marking none was supposed to go so Now these five lve men man four tour of them gang sang leaders and one a a. brattice man happened to pass that mark or Just what set off oft the explosion of ot gas Wo we do not know The fact act that more than a thousand thou thou-i sand Eland melt were at nt work in other parts of the In In- v w r 1 he r 1 sa 1 measures WEST FRANKFORT FRANKFORT Ill III Jan JanjO 23 AP AP Five Five men were killed aria and three slightly Injured today in a a. local gas S explosion in the New vOr Ne On- On ent ant coal mine here r L The dead are Jerry Roach Arlie Sanders Elijah HIndman Floyd Flod Kerns and Ed To I bert More 1 than 1100 men were in the tho mine at the time of ot the explosion the cause of which c uld not bg bo bg determined S 'S The explosion was the first t to Ui occur In the mine which is one ot of Qt I Continued 4 on page e 55 5 I HUNDREDS 1 COME OUT UNHURT IN INGAS INGAS GAS EXPLOSIONS Continued from page 1 the largest and most most modernly equipped in the world HAZARDS REDUCED Officials explained that use af ot shale dust and other devices had greatly reduced the hazards particularly the possibility of a n coal dust explosion the Ignition of ot gas No fire resulted from flom the blast and damage to the mine was negligible Only three men besides those killed were vere worl working ing in the immedIate immedIate immediate im im- im- im mediate vicinity of the explosion which was confined to a a. sm sin Section about feet below betow th the I v y 1 surface J. J The The escaped with slight injury The bodies of the victims were recovered and Identified by their check numbers All were burned beyond recognition CAUSE UNKNOWN Because of escaping gas s the section sec see section tion Of the mine where here the blast occurred had been declared unsafe last night by a state mining exam exam- iner men The cause of the eXl explosion was not determined An investigation tion lion ja us olUS being made of a report that a rule against smoking was violated when shen one of ot the men lit a In the shaft Six Missing in Colorado Blast I TRINIDAD Colo Cob Jan 29 AP Al' APAll APAll All All but two of about fIfty men caught In n. n an explosion In mine I e No I 3 of the Bear Canyon Coal company company com corn pany near here today were out of ot the mine by noon This Information Information information tion was received here this afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon an and Charles general gen geis- eral erel manager of the company About w wenty five men were wele burned or otherwise injured by the blast blant reported d. d The explosion occurred at ut 10 Rescue workers have not yet learned the cause of the blast DENVER Cob Colo Jan 29 20 A AP Al p I Messages es received at the office of or ortho tho state coal mine Inspector eui eari ead l this afternoon said all miners caught In the explosion at Berwind Ber- Ber wInd Colo Cob this morning have been brought out of the property alive Two men usually employed Inthe in inthe inthe the mine remained unaccounted d foi for this afternoon but it was tny failed to enter m today |