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Show i I a TRAGIC DEATH?-HERI DEATH?-HERI MINERS Four Men Are Overcome by Gat in Utah Mine, Being Dead Before Help Came. Three Meet Death In Heroic Attempt to Save Life of an Italian Who Had Become Overcome by Foul Air In Mine Salt Inko City. Four men met death, while forty otiicrs woro ovor-como ovor-como by tho fumes of gas In tho workings of tho Utah Copper company com-pany nt Illngham, on Saturday. Tho deadly fumes that proved fatal to four or tho mining men wcro In what Is known as a gopher, a small working below tho tunnel of tho mine. An Italian miner was tho first victim of thu fumes. Ills body was found lying across tho laddor. half way up from tho gophor. Dolluving that thcro was nnothor Italian forking fork-ing In tho gophor, n rcscuo party of five men, consisting of Kent Smith, assistant superintendent of tho Utah Copper company; Hugh Rums and George Wilson, steam shovel pen, nnd Oscnr Mann, a brakeman, and another brakeman known ns "Ruby," Tho first three iinnid wont into tho gopher to search for tho body ofj'tlio second Italian which thoy oxpectod to find In tho working. Tho two brake-men brake-men lowered them Into tho holo by a winch nn,l were prepared to haul thum out In caso thoy woro overcome. Tlm men, however, wero unnblo to get bnck to tho ropo. - Tho two hrnkemen nt tho entrance to tho gopher woro also overcame, but thoy rovlved nftor they had been carried out Into tho nlr. Tho air was so foul that tho bodies or tho thrco men In tho gopher could not bo reached until 11 o'clock at night, and then only after tho ronl nlr had been pumped out or thu working to a largo extent. Kfforts to revlvo tho men proved futilo. For hourB almost evory ono who ventured near tho opening Into tho working was overcome. Tho mines or the Dostnn Consolidated nnd tho Utah Consolidated companies woro closed nnd tho men sent to assist In tho work of roscuo. Forty or fifty mlnters who assisted In tho ruscuo work had to bo carried nut of tho tun no's, suffering from tho deadly effects of tho fumoi. I "ti'bceiiiB tnaf ntu tntncir-lp Imd becomo overcome, and vJJStTi scrtcd by two companions, who renched tho mouth of tho tunnel completely com-pletely ovcrcomo by tho fumes of tho foul nlr. Kent Smith, tho nenornl foreman of tho plant, headed a party to go to tlm Italians' nsslstAnco. It was In endenvorlng to rescuo the? Italian Ital-ian thnt tho other men lost their lives. |
