| Show NOT A MAN ESCAPED FEARFUL EXPLOSION IN A COLORADO MINE every miner at work when the accident occurred Is killed the explosion being caused by coal gas the mountain loal coal iron companas comp anys mine no 3 at ferolo forty miles west of trinidao colo was so BO badly wrecked by the explosion which occurred on satin ba linday day thet aliet the rescuers have hae not yet succeeded in pene trat ing to the point where the minel working estimates or of the number or of men lin in tile the mine at the tinto vary from twenty to sixty they no ire fort rs with tho the exception of four the llie mine comp company anys officials havo have no record of the number wo though hough it Is known that only twenty one men went into the alio mine in ili tho the morning according to reports which dhigh have not been verified many more men went into the mine in the afternoon it Is regarded as aa certain that nono none of those who were in ili the mine when the tile explosion occurred lire are now alive the mine Is a sloping tunnel over 2000 feit feet long rescuers Rescue is entered tho the slope elope as lai far its as room 13 which Is feet from the mouth they succeeded in reaching leaching this point only after tho most dart dangerous gerus work anil and after crawling through many narrow places at this point they encountered a solid wall of roe rock that had fallen from above and closed the alio passage lassige the explosion was caused by coal gas which caused the roof to cavo cave in the crash was so terrific that it was heard for miles and the vibrations were distinctly felt at newton twelve miles away it seemed is as it if an all earthquake hail had occue occurred red so violently did the earth tremble smoke dust and dirt were blown from the tunnel and air shaft in heavy black clouds broken timbers huge chunks of coal and blocks of all sizes were hurled hundreds of fert feet from the portal of the big bore and fell on and around the tipple that stands bands directly opposite the mine people who were near the mine were showered with sand stones and dirt some of the stones landed fully a quarter of a mile away |
