Deseret Evening News | 1902-01-24 | Page 1 | Sixty Miners Missing

SIXTY MINERS MISSING Terrible Mine Explosion at Lost Creek Cr ek Causes Indefinite toss Loss of or Life illi tid I Ix x Injured by br Hum 11 I Des Deu De Moine Iowa 10 Jan was M received at I 1 of a terrible t mIne mIl explosion at Lost Creek Iowa 1011 ten toilets south luth of Oskaloosa Sixty in I now are now no reported to ho bo missing Four lORd dead have lmae hn been ben taken out numb and six nix I Ix in injured injured Jurd all 11 fatally Particular nrc or hard har to obtain owing oln to the fact faD that time tho Ih mine min j JI ii ten s In time the country and anti there Is only on one telephone line out to It which Is 18 In tho the of the time Lost Creek Mining company Physicians Ih were trite taken In at from front were rl ex expected to arrve arrive at 21 According to the time sent ont by one ono of at this the fore tortu foremen fri men of or tho time mines the wits was what 1 Is known n ni as n a dull duet and took tool plate at 1215 There Th rf were e oo miners In the bite mine mint at lt the tle time tints and nil all al have hae got ot out except sixty who are en entombed rt In itt the back bac part of or the aide shaft Ihal Lost Creek Crek mine 1 I is located In iii II tho the southern part of county am amla and amid la II 1 owned by the time Loat Cek C tini nl Aim ln In lug Inc company composed of ol capitalist c The town 11 has a n stub stul coat coal track rork connecting It with the Iowa 10 Cen Central Central traly hut t 11 alt ll traffic of a n passenger pl nn tin tur Is II m mAde d by b means of a n wagon road