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Show TRAGIC DEATH OF " HEROIC MINERS Four Men Are Overcome by Gas in Utah Mine, Being Dead Before Help Came. Three Meet Death In Heroic Attempt to Save Life of an Italian Who Had Deeome Overcome by Foul Air In Mine, Salt Ijikc City. Four men met death, white forty others wero oven como by the fumes of gns In tho workings of tho Utnh Copper company com-pany at lllnglmm, on Saturday. Tho deadly fumes that proved fatal to four of tho mining men wero lp whnt Is known ns a gophor, a srvall working below tho tunnel of tho nine. An Italian miner was tho first victim of tho fumes. Ills, body wus found lying across tho laddor halt way up from tho gopher. Uollevlng kliut there was another Italian work-ling work-ling In tho gophor, a rescue pnrty of (five men, consisting or Kent Smith, nsslstnnt superintendent ot tho Utah Copper company; Hugh Burns nnd George Wilson, steam shovel men, nnd Oscar Mnnn, a brnkpmnn, and another brnkornnn known ns "Ituby." Tim first three named went Into tho gopher to search for tho body of tho second Italian which they expected to find In iho working. Tho two brake-men brake-men lowered them Into tho hoto by a winch nn.l were prepared to haul them out In caso they wero overcome. The men. howovor, were unablo to got bnck to the ropo. The two .brnkemcn at tho cntranco to tho gopher wero nlso overcome, but they rovlved after they had been carried out Into tho air. Tho air was so foul that tho bodies of tho three men In tho gopher could not b reached jintll 11 o'clock ut night, and' then only after the foul air had been pumped out of tho working to a large ftxtent. Efforts to rcvlvo tho men proved futile. For hourB almost every one who (ventured near tho opening Into tho working was overcome Tho mines of tho Boston Consolidated and tho Utah Consolidated companies wero closed nnd tho men sent to assist In tho work of rescuo. Forty or fifty mlntcrs who assisted In the rescue work had to be cnrrlcd out of tho tunnels, tun-nels, suffering from tho deadly effects of tho fumes. It seems that the Italian laborer had become overcome, and was do-sorted do-sorted by two companions, who reached the mouth ot the tunnel completely com-pletely overcome by tho fumes of tlio foul air. Kent Smith, tho gcnernl foreman of tho plant, headed a party in go to tho Italians' assistance.. It was In endeavoring to rescuo tho Italian Ital-ian that the other men lost their lives. . |