Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-20 | Page 1 | Fifty Miners Believed Dead by Gas Blast

MINERS BEliEVED DEAD BY GAS BlAST One Hundren Twenty-five Twenty in Underground Workings Workings Workings Work Work- ings as Roofs Fall Trains and Equipment Rushed Abandon Hope for Men Trapped by Debris Remove Remove Remove Re Re- move Bodies of Two Victims Victims Victims Vic Vic- tims Rescue Work Slow SULLIVAN Ind Feb 20 By U. U P. P Seven P.-Seven Seven bodies were reached c cin in m the City mine near here this afternoon by rescuers according to toa a report reaching the top of of- tho the shaft rh S This led rescuers to believe that all the fifty men trapped might have perished SULLIVAN Ind md Feb 20 The fate of fifty miners entrapped by by a blast in the City Coal company mine near here was Wa at 2 o'clock this afternoon Two un un- in- in identified dead had been taken from the mine and three men se seriously seriously seriously se- se Injured had been rescued The explosion occurred at 10 1030 3 a a. a m. m One hundred and twenty- twenty five miners were In the shaft at that time Reports brought to the top by men engaged in seeking the dead and injured indicate it is probable many many- others are dead All mine rescue teams In the district district district dis dis- dis- dis h have ve been rushed to the scene and physicians and amb ambulances ambulance lances are held at the shaft awaiting developments devel devel- The explosion which is said to have resulted from Ignition o of gas wrecked the interior o of the mine At o'clock this afternoon the work of rescuing the entrapped miners was as proceeding slowly owing ow ow- in lag ing to the debris in the mine entries caused by the explosion Men ji in charge of the rescue work reported it was hardly probable that tl the e. e approximately fifty men still in n the mine had escaped injury or death It n was stated that iti it i might be two or three hours before I the m men n could cO ld be rea reached h d. d INDIANAPOLIS I Ind Feb O.- O. 20 I Reports to the state mine inspectors inspector's inspectors tors tor's office here w were ivre re that m nien n xv were ere ere Jn n the mine at Sullivan at the I time tIm of or the explosion that two i were taken out dead and that about I fifty fIty remained in the mine The ventilator fans were still working according to the inspectors inspector's reports