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Show Woman Sees Husband, 4 Others Die in Mine Bodies Recovered From Wyoming Cave-in After Woman JGuides Rescuers 29 Miles RAWLINS, Wyo, Nov. 10 0T A miner's wife who was standing only 12 feet from her husband when a mine roof collapsed over him and" four other men was under un-der treatment today for near hysteria. hys-teria. Mrs. Viola Stackhouse, 33. had walked 130 feet into the mine and was standing at the edge of a large chamber la which th men V were working when the roof of the chamber gave way last night. Lee Stackhouse. her husband; his three employes; Raymond Potter, Bill Haywood and Wesley Messing, and Sammy Valdez. a Rawlins bar employe, were buried beneath tons of coal. Blinded by the coal dust, Mrs. Stackhouse groped her way to the tCeaUeuMl m Pas Poar) iCotuau Oaa) ;vyo:.:i!ig mine ; cave-iitkills 5 1 (CmUumS frees Fss : shsft ultra nca and drovs 39 miles to Rawlins. "The roof of the mine caved In five men are In there," she told ; - Sheriff Glen Penland. Although near collapse, Mrs. - stackhouse went back to the mine i and aided rescuers by telling them , the position of the men when the cave-In occurred. When the bodies were reached after about an hour ', of digging the sheriff ordered the - small, attractive woman to go to . the home of friends in Rawlins to rest. i About 75 men volunteered for the rescue work. Because of the danger of a second cave-in part ' of the large chamber was timbered , before the bodies were dug out, Mrs. Stackhouse had driven to ; the mine with Valdez, who wished to see her husband on business. He and Stackhouse were talking when the roof collapsed. AU the victims except Messing, . who had worked at the mine only two days, were Rawlins men. ! Stackhouse began operating the two-year-old mine last falL It is ' located 39 miles southwest ef Rawlins, Raw-lins, In extreme south central Wyo-, Wyo-, mlng. . , Friends here said the Stack-, Stack-, houses were married only recently. State Mine Inspector J. M. ' Sampson of Rock Springs and Coroner Cor-oner M. E. Pickett of Carbon county are investigating. Plunge Down Shaft Kills Miner Special to The Telegram : DUCHESNE, Nov. 10-The state ' Industrial commission Friday be-. be-. gan Investigation into the death In the Parlette gllsonlte mine of . Howard McMullen, 29, Roosevelt, , killed In a 79-foot plunge down a ' vertical shaft Thursday. John Taylor of Helper, state , coal mines Inspector, was in charge of the investigation. . McMullen and Joseph Page, a fellow worker at the mine, 13 miles south of Myton and 28 miles southeast of Diichesne, were riding down the shaft on a bucket when McMullen slipped and fell to the bottom. Roy Schonlan of the Schonlan mortuary at Duchesne said the victim's skull, chest and one leg were crushed. Death was believed Instantaneous. McMullen was 'born In Leeds, Washington county, on May 14, . 1910, a son of Frank and Marietta Harris McMullen. Survivors Include the parents, now of Roosevelt, and four broth-. broth-. . era, Ralph, foreman at the Parlette , mine; Claude, Cheater and M. S. 'McMullen. all of Randlette. Utah. ' Mme Bfast Profo Waits Recovery E. A. Hodges, state metal mines Inspector, said Friday that further " investigation Into the cave-In that 'caused the death Wednesday of . one miner and serious injury to ' another at the Utah Copper com-', com-', pany mine In Bingham awaited re-1 re-1 covery of the Injured man. lakovos Glacomls, 42, Copper-field, Copper-field, was killed and Charles D. . Nichols, 30, also of Copperfleld, was hurt The two men placed a com-- com-- paratively small amount of powder to blow out a shot hole," Mr. Hodges aaid, "then retreated about 30 feet to wait for the explosion, which, instead of being , just a ' amall springing' explosion, evidently evi-dently was so forceful as to cause , part of the bank to give way, and the men were struck by falling '. rock." Nichols' condition waa reported ' fair at St Mark's hospltsl In Salt Lake City, where he la being treated treat-ed for leg fractures and other Injuries. In-juries. Funeral services for Glacomls will be conducted at 1 p. m. Sun-' Sun-' day In the Greek Orthodox Church ' Holy Trinity, 279 South Second West street, by the Rev. H. Ca-. Ca-. valaa. Burial will be in Mount Olivet cemetery. |
