Show Two Men Escape Serious Serio liS Injury As Explosion Rocks Hocks Mine Area Monday Two employees of Jen Inc j working at the La Sal shaft shaf were miraculously alive and improving today in the I. I W. W Allen hospital after surviving an explosion in inthe inthe inthe the primer room of the mine last Monday at 1130 a. a m. m Kemp on Huntington Utah and Rudy Lead Lead- yUle ville Colorado were treated for tor hums burns urns lacerations and bruises Monday following blasts that destroyed destroyed de de- de the building 1 in which they were wen working and a II carpenter shop feet away The two men and a II companion were working in the primer room preparing primers for explosives ad making makin dummies packing tar for the shot hot holes when n a II wall of flame flam appeared between them Hid aed the door of t fis tn room They f fought t their way through th the flames seconds before the first flut firsti of i a series of explosions caused by bf dy mit caps aps and case ase of Thy estimated that I C ClIp cap and aad twelve cases cas of dynamite in a series serJ of M. M A was WilS t thrown throw 76 f ft M t I t tb tM air ait by t the tx explosion He suffered bums burns of the hands and face mostly by his dive through the flames sik received burns of the hands and face ace lacerations and bruises Fragments of rock and building pelted them the two men said When interviewed Monday night they could not believe that they were still alive Neither man could explain the origin of the flame that set oft off ff the explosion They said that term a and a mate material used to paint ca caps capo s probably caught fire fre in the front of the room suspected ted that an electrical electrical elec elec- storm might have caused the fire Robinson told the Times Inde pendent that he shoved his companion companion com com- panion through the fire lIre then dived dived div div- ed ad through himself getting about ten feet from the door when the first firM explosion After Aft that h he said they ju jut just kept going off oft Commenting on their fortunate escape the two men mm said If Jr a miracle of God thaU that's that s what U it i if I. n nS S v al other athir r tow we were treated at the tle hospital l and aM r released sed sd t Th Thir ir names were not immediately immedi known Other bu buildings t at atthe atthe atthe the shaft had windows blown Inand in inand inand and the men said they could t feel 1 the blast deep in the mine |