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Show TYENTY TO SIXTY : LIVES ARE LOST Mine -Explosion In Colo- . rado in Which It Is Believed Every Man , at Work In the Shaft Was Killed. . TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct The Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron com-panys com-panys mine No. 8, at Teredo, forty miles west of this city, was so badly wrecked by the explosion which occurred yesterday yester-day that the rescuers have not yet succeeded suc-ceeded in penetrating to the point where the miners were working. Twenty to Sixty Dead. Estimates of the number of men In the mine at the time vary from twenty to sixty. They are mainly foreigners, and not known to Americans in the vicinity. vi-cinity. The mine company's officials have no record of the number working,, though it is known that only twenty-one men went into the mine yesterday morning. Acoordlng to reports which have not been verified, many more men went in- to the mine in the afternoon. None Are Now Alive. It Is regarded as certain that none of T these who were in the mine when the explosion occurred are now alive. The mine Is a sloping tunnel, over 2000 feet long. Rescuers entered the slope as far as room 13, which is 200 feet from the mouth of the tunnel. They succeeded succeed-ed in reaching this point only after the most dangerous work and after crawling crawl-ing through many narrow places. At this point they encountered a solid wall of rock that had fallen from above and closed the passage. Still 400 Feet Away. Room 26. where most of the miners are supposed to have been working, is 600 feet from the mouth of the tunnel. ef or 400 feet beyond the point to which the 4;'. rescuers penetrated. Only one body has ; been recovered, that of T. Doran, a drtvf' . ; veF,-wborTuas Jurt rp--. j v as' teril&ryUrnedr' . . . "The report that sixty men were in the mine at the time of the explosion - Is untrue," said Coroner SIpe, after vis- v-. ; ltlng the scene of the accident. " "I believe that there are twenty entombed en-tombed in the mine, and that all are dead." Probably Dust Explosion. s "I think the explosion, which caused the roof of the mine to cave in, wae a oust explosion. The mine Is well ventilated-, without artificial devices. Nu bodies were recovered last night. "The mine Is burning and -many of the bodies may be cremated, thus ma-king ma-king it impossible to ascertain exactly the number In the mine." There were only two Americans In, the . mine. George Brandenburg end John" Hatton. The others were Slavs snd Mexicans. Company officials deny that there were more than twenty-one men In the mine at the time of the explosion, but miners have today estimated the number missing miss-ing at sixty-eight. |