Show ENTOMBS MINERS I I t Thirty Are Reported Victims in Colorado t in 1 NEWCASTLE Col Dec An explosion in the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Mountain l Fuel one and a half miles east o of here hele at 10 20 o'clock this morning entomb d Mine Foreman Foreman Fore Fore- man L L. L. L Crawford Fire Boss Boss' L L. WaIters and a at least thirty miners I This estimate was based on a hurried check of the company's I rolls roIls Some officials expressed the belief that the then nl in the workings might be increased to forty Only about eight of the themen themen men in the mine are for foreigners s. s 1 Charles S. S mino with th five fh companions with at bean an Hon tion of the workings ft was believed that the explosion originated in the tho thoc west c t w workings at a point at least 1500 t ft from the ho portal or or the main tunnel ut whether it was caused b by dust or orEas orgas gas had not been determined According Accord Accord- JD ing to mine officials cint six men Br are known to have been working in the tho west entry and aro believed to ha have 0 been killed d Hope Held Out Hasty examination to hod to the belief belie that the east entry was wai eh free from the force of the explosion and this led to expressions of hope that some of the men employed there would ho be found alive e The force e of th c explosion was vas clout to wreck the tho fan fa- but rescuers reported that the they had gone several se hundred from the portal before encountering an any serious obstruction in tho main tunnel iners from the tho Colorado Fuel arid Iron company's mine at Spring GuJ Gulch h twelve miles die ilis taut equipped with helmets started at once for N NewcastLe to aid in the res res- cue no The been in operation about I I Iono ono one year the output of tons tone daily being used by railroads The mine ie of the variety At 1 1 a clock o'clock it vas WIlS reported th that t a an n number of bodies had been located ed b by bythe the helmet helm t men No o Trace ot of Fire No of fire firo inside the tho mine mino has been found and th thus s one or of the most deadly perils to the entombed men and I the rescuers was Tas eliminated The Vulcan an mine had been running to f full U. U capacity for several week not not- t Go dared in the Color Colorado do coal fields this fall The strike affected the th V Vulcan mine with th an all the tho other properties of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company but som some of the e. e r vent went b back to work and tile places or 01 still on strike were IDled filled by tho employment or of neW men AU entombed miners were married sav say mine officials A n of oC inca w ro in the upper workings s which are arc reached by a long Jong incline indino from the tippie tip tip- tipple pie nt at tho time o of the explosion The These e hastened to the main main- tunnel and are BrG said to have been met by a second cx cx- At 15 this afternoon two bodies had bad been recovered Xe Newcastle was the tho scene of tho first bi big mine mino disaster in Col Colorado in 1850 when men were killed in inthe inthe the Santa Fo Fe mine mino |