Show ANOTHER EXPLOSION at the Gil gilsonite mines TWO MORE VICTIMS ADDED TO THE LIST tile the accumulation of explosive dust supposed to have been the cause IS THROWN FEET chill chats anderson andersen mid and audy andy garns cremated in tile the burning mine and other pio eem ou on the outside 11 bounded tile the nine III no still on oil I 1 ahre ire tho the former fornale r ioe settled st la in the courts verdict lor for defendant tuesday afternoon between three and tour four tho the people of vernal and tho entire valley wore were startled stait led by the rattling of windows and doors nud and a lillig noise like the cannonading canno eanno of d beant thunder thun dir and many a benit turned f faint aint at the thoughts of an explosion at tho the ianca n benr on duchesne Du chesno 1 athin an aa hour word was telephoned over from the post poa that another explosion for far than any act et arion cnown n in the history of gils gilsonite minoa mines had enlen drilen place at the mines minea oi of the gilson Asp asphaltum baltun I 1 company compan hy a digance di tance of 21 miles milea from vernal the timbering limbering of the shafts was thrown feet into the air and the blames wore leaping to a height of feet two men were missing mi asing chas anderson and andy garna and wore wounded intense excitement prevailed in vornal vernal all evening evenin gf and groups of nien men could bo be been everywhere on the the tori ible event J T mcconnell who is 13 agent for the a BJ this thia place made pi separations epa rations to go to the of the explosion RR as both boit bel t and toni tom taylor mana manager er and tore fore man inan respectively of the mine wele away in sid salt ahle us as wit neiss in the ca a bof 3 of cook et ul al vs gilson aspdal turn tum company the stage arrived at about six si but the driver could not enlighten the people any aa he v as tit the half way hollow at the linio of the explosion lie ife could see the blaines and and us its he be came cam 0 i yet vei tile the into the valley about annadown ann win down said lie he could see flames and a gaoat cicat mountain of black kinoko lolling as aa high as the e co 0 could toe hoc between bight and dine ni no in the ho 0 L lining tho EXPRESS tivo accompanied by pope took a fingle ng and started for the acene of tho the explosion tho the night NN us ag cloudy and very dark until about 11 ll when the moon would occasionally casio nally baino through tho the clouds and malro make it more easy to follow the road 1 I hon hen within seven miles of the dinoy a I 1 hugo huge cone was seen which cooled lilo liko a i distant mountain poal peak but by cloo clo o ob observation it was noticed that tho tha cono cone changed in appearance and 0 no o came to the conclusion that it ans from the burning mine gaining the top of 0 tho the sand band didgo two gigantic columns of firo fire capped t by a 0 donae dense cloud clond of black smoke was seen issuing from the name mine looking much like lika the craters of two volcanoes in active eruption arriving at the vamo mirto at a m chilled to tho the bone a mosia mo sia sis lalor davis davia bennett Uen uett and goff were ere found awake watching the burning mine our tired horo was waa soon cared for and some eoma good strong r co TUB disposed of and we proceeded to title ft a nearer observation 1111 the tha gils gilsonite vein runs in nearly a straight line lina east cast and west ceab and aad thia thi mine las has seven eoven air shafts only a few rods apart in the following manner mann er 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 the two aars representing the position of the two men who wore in the anne when the explosion occurred find and who were ere undoubtedly lulled killed and afterward cremated xe mated by the fierce flames bamps that wore were issuing from the two tight right hand hlafka whore where the two men wore were located it was a grand and awful right bight to look upon and loft au impression on the mind of tho the writer antor that time can not obliterate great tongues of fire wh which aeb took upon them all of the chloi s of 0 the rainbow rai rati abow shot up the clio dense black smoke sometimes to the height of a hundred feed coming coining ap patently paten fly from froin the bowels of the earth cra cracking cUing and roaring lilo like distant tant musketry made one think they stood at tile the raguth of hell bell and the doomed soula m were ere haymi having a b battlo a atlo among themselves the burning au an shafts were near the top of the hill and the lower shafts furnished a draught through the eighteen anti and ono one hundred foot levels that fanned the flames to a hent heat like a f furnace urance while standing within about thirty 3 ards arda of the largest fire a loud lond crash was wag heard beard and immediately following tho the air waa nas filled with burning purll parti clos of gilsonite gils it la is needless need letis to r say ay that tile the pencil pusher and his bis companions fled to safer quartet 3 and come to the conclusion that lent enchantment to the view for hundreds of feet about the mine tho the ground was strewn with the broken and blackened pieces of timber that was thrown with terrific force from the mine by tho explosion and the window min a in ahn buildings belong log ing to the mine were nearly all bio ken kela by y the shock at the spot the two men were at when the explosion oc burred tons upon tons ons of debris had fallen in caused by tho the intense heat beat melting the gi gils Nonito anti and it is doubtful if a trace of lh tbt victims will ever be found when daylight appealed tho the clr ties who were tit at tho the whon the icci dont occurred wore intoci viewed and a list of the taken two men andy garns and C U M anderson andersen were in the mine and anero killed as aa it would bo be an impossibility fr f r them to escape death it if the explosion did not kill thom them the florce borce hont from the burning timbers and gilson gibon ite would in a very few seconds leave no trace of them there beito seven men mostly log my freighters standing near tho mouth month of one of tho the air shat shafts ts walter carloss an employee noticed a slight light puff of smoke issue from the shaft and cried run for your life and started to run but was waa knocked down by the explosion which immediately followed tho cho smoke lie he saw issue from the shaft aih aft ifo he got up find started again and was knocked dou donn the depond time when ho be cl awley to a place of safety on his hands hand 3 and kneed tile tho otheir also started to run at the same time but knocked down by the shock and tour four of thorn wore were badly burned find bruised bruited about the head and face davo Davel bennett lennett and newton stewart St were working g in another shaft riot not connected with the ono one that exploded and the shock hurled burled them from side to side of I 1 the be u shaft baft liko like straws they were badly fj f lightened ight ened but not injured arod tho the list of the injured aro thomas ingoff boff of utah eyes cypa burnt not thought to bo be seriously cju I 1 peter rian cian of far tars fare e and eieg seriously burnt frank warron warren of price bead and face baca burnt joseph draper of wellington Welling tOD lyoa burnt nearly till all the seven men had bad their hair singed and faces by tile the flash of fire from tho the shaft bhatt when it exploded al misi gsg eliza wall and her sister wore mero antho in the kitchen of the Uzi boarding arding house several hundred feet from froin tho the mine and when the shock from the clio explosion toie the win windows dowis from the build trig ing it frightened frighten td ther them nearly into hysterics hysteric arid and they had bad to be taken to the post the explosion wa vms seen and felt for miles milea at rt ft duchesne which is I 1 two miles distant from the mine the shock hock was waa di folt felt and as the mine is in n plain view of the a 8 great many paw aw the exploit explosions ODA those that were eye WL witnesses of f the explosion said that each shaft exploded one after another in rapid succession making a loiso like thee the firing of heavy artillery and tho the flames shot up hulad hundreds of feet into the air followed by a dense column of jot jet black amolo which bich boomed to pierce the nery ery hoevens deslie i and furniture rattled in tho the houses at tho the post and ft a great many thought it wag wa tin nn earthquake shock what caud cau iod the loloa noa will never bo be known as tho the only ones that could possibly give an explanation aro killed it seems though that the wine mine had given silent warning that it was in a dangerous condition bonnett bonnet nett noticed that the dust seemed to bo be in ill a condition to explode nt at any time ond and warned the mon men of his fears george erickson Enck son who had becia woi king in tile tho mine but happened to bo in ila vernal on a visit when tho the ano accident ident ocel led is 13 said bald to hae told BORIC it was neaily deady impossible impossibly for him to keep aenlo while at work ork in the tha mine a symptom of tho prea enso of cat cairon bon acid gas gag bert Soa boldt manager and thoin a ne a taylor foreman were on f the lie road beti detrou Neen ft 14 Dnelle duchesne chesne sno and liuo mile on their the ir way to the kiino whoa a messenger mot met them with nola of th tho fatal di disaster satter thoy arned nt at t tho 0 mine in tho the evening but could do CIO nothing mr and mr baylot both stated they could in no way account for or the explosion as is the men were furnished bacety lamps made ox pi essly toi fol ahli woi k and the on only byway way fire could be communicated from the lumps was to break thorn them both these gentlemen tho the fatal of tho the accident anti and cosmod t to feel verv feuly the cho position in which ell they are placed mr leapoldt i has hai secured a number of teams and scra scrapers peri and proposes to till lill one of the air shafts and stop tile the progress I 1 of the fire as aa it is supposed to bo be burning only at one end ot of the wino mine andy garns la is from salt luke and has been woi ling at the irlue bout about to years charles M U andorson anderson haa bas been a 11 levident leh ident ol of county for a ye beur ir pilat comina from salt luke lake and is it a sonin son on in law of tho lato late 0 W crouch ho lins has a abito wife addono gal 7 aenis eais old wilo live on tile tho old chouch place in achley labon en on audgo and ho had been w aik oik mg ing tit at the mine about ono one month lie he is a member in good standing of the tha Mii honic older of Bollo vue idaho ho he is 41 years of au a lu and w as raised noir park city during his 1113 1031 benco in ashley valley ho has made many warm friends |