| Show SHOCKING EXPLOSION TERRIBLE DISASTER AT ALMY THIRTEEN TEEN MEN MEM KILLED BY A MINE EXPLOSION SOME OF THEM FROM UTAH A disastrous explosion occurred in no 4 mine at almy on the night of the the following details of which we glean from a letter written by james W WWilson wilson one of the miners to his father who resides lin in this city s dau an explosion occurred here last night at 1130 it was most awful and sickens bickens me when I 1 think of it we are all safe thank god there were only thirteen men in the mine faine two of whom were blown out of it one man was thrown half a mile out of the mine when he was found his body was burned to a crisp wanting the head and disemboweled disembowel ed the oler other was blown to atoms his head one leg and the trunk of his body have been found I 1 picked up part of his skull the other eleven were buried up in the mine and we cant rt get down because ol of damp john hummocks Dum oum mocks father is in it and so are george petersons boy and andrew masons brother frank 4 there othere are no more that you are acquainted quain qua ted with there is one in by the name of john hood not one of the family of that name that you are acquainted quain ted with but an entire stranger stra ngeT to them that is about all in that respect dont be alarmed about us I 1 wont go near the mine nor let william his brother do deao 6 the agthe fire and fin flames es issuing from the mouth of the slope continued to come for three minutes and during that time there was a hissing noise deafening in the extreme no one can realize the amount of gas as that was in the mine the ames names were in the air as nearly as I 1 can estimate or feet they extended over halt a mile mil from efroin the mouth of the slope and during that time the timber rock iron wheels of cars coal and all manner of debris were flying through the air rocks went clear through houses women wire were flying in their night clothes almost crazy with fear the whole earth was vas shaking I 1 could not stand on my feet but was knocked from one place to another my brother williams house was smashed james hendry and I 1 slept in the room the rock flew through the roof of the house broke the cupboard and smashed a trunk but we escaped without a scratch five or six persons have been hurt in the houses none seriously this is about all I 1 have got satisfied with mines no more of them for me I 1 will wait till I 1 get my time and then william and aad I 1 will go to the city he says he has had all of the mines that he be wants are to down the slope to see if they cannot annot get down to the entries where the men are yesterdays ogden herald announces that J W hunter ot of Ri verdale has received a dispatch requesting him to come to almy dimmed immediately f abely is as his son john was seriously in injured i ared john and joseph emmett of N north orth ogden are also reported to leave have b been een taken out oi of the debris dead |
