Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-08-03 | Page 2 | Probes Opened in Mine Deaths

PROBES OPEl IN MINE DEATH 6 DUQUOIN IlL III Aug 3 southern Illinois counties r separate inquests today for or miners miner killed of oC carbon mon lid gas as th they y battled a adeep i deep In the Union Collieries Collieries' X leen teen mine nine at Dowell five jj south of here Saturday night I Six of the miners apparent their lives as they tried heroic herci to rescue three companions Tw others overcome by the gas IU rl revived 4 Mine Superintendent Ed I said the fire started when a It transformer r Installed le less than fa hours before beton exploded and burning oil J The dead f ii J Forest Devors Dowell Dowen dla dL Steve Hrim D Dovell tJI district mine manager Cia Cawvey Dowell chief electrical electrical fei gin eel of at th the th-e colliery Louts LouIsR Rii Elkville Joseph Spillers Spiller John Kelley Elkville George JEdWin Fi p Duquoin Edwin Harris Di Logan Graeff EdWin Do Dowell ell