Show five miners lose lives des moines la five miners literally blown blomn to pieces by the explosion of twenty live pounds of advia mite bilte in a storage powder house at th hi west riverside III Rivet vei bide side coal mine to LAO miles flom this city dead charles brown engineer duke miller sinker harry belknap sinker dell vance sinker george ar pump man brown vane vanci and arrowwood leave families heads arms amis and limbs were mere seat scat for a distance of COO feet the explosion n a ao not known until the day shift appeared to go to work tho victims were engaged in sinking a new shaft and during the early morning hours a rainstorm came up m which lite compelled the men to stop atop work they sought bought shelter in the powder houst lightning struck a tree near tile the building antl and ignited the dynamite as ai w well ell its aa two amo kegs of powder b building was mas blown into fragments some borne of the tha bodies were so BO badly dis figured that Is ble the nearest house was wag feet feel away and the inmates knew nothing of the accident attributing the noise to the bolt of lightning |