Show MEET DEATH IN MINE SEVEN MEN DEAD AND THREE INJURED IN FIRE FIHE IN A NEVADA MINE accident caused by oil explosion the men being caught on the 1400 foot level and forced to pass pa through flames flame fly ely nev seven men met death and three others were seriously injured early thursday in a fire which swept tho the new five compartment shaft of D the giroux consolidated mines company here two bodies remain in the workings doth both shafts ot of the mine have been sealed scaled to smother the flames flain pa the fire alre was caused it Is believed by the explosion of a barrel 0 of oil at the pumping station on the 1200 foot level of the new shaft ten tea men were working at the 1400 toot foot level at the time and they looked up to see the shaft above thera them filled ailed wilh names flames they at once boarded tho the cage and started for the surface eur tace they encountered the llames flames at the tha 1200 foot level and stopped stop pedr five of the men left the cage and started to walk through the 1200 foot level to the old alpha shaft abaft feet away through which they hoped to climb out of the mine the ivo five men remaining in the cage gave the signal to hoist and were pulled through the blazing shaft one was dm dea when tho the top was reached and the others were taken to a bos BOB pita ako tko tho work of rescuing the five men remaining in tho the mine was then attempted through the alpha shaft but without success |