Show ME burman arn TO 1 explosion in cement works kills six workmen PORTLAND colo jan 3 six men arc are dead and two more will die as the result of a coal dust explosion in the portland cement works here this morning the explosion occurred in the coal pulverizing room the second floor of if the cement works is used as a room where coal is crushed and the dust used in treating the cement this ro room om is is I 1 cleaned twice tt month to prevent an explosion and this morning a force of ten men inea weri werl sent to clean llean it all fires are put out when this work is u being dune during the purging process a ter terrific rifle explosion took place but whether it was due to an fire in the furnace below or to the striking of a match by one of the men will nevar never be known one ma man 1 out of the ten eb unhurt when the explosion occurred he wai was blown out of the room on to a load of coal that was coming up an elevator he ile was taken to tre the top of the building and dropped ff if thirty feet on to a flat car with a ton of coal on top of him but miraculously escaped injury one man was instantly and the others were either blown or ran out of the building with coal dust all through their clothes when they reached the open air this dust caught fire and the men went screaming out across tha snow elu ding their would be saviors in their crazed agonies when they were ere caught by brother other employed employ ae they ley were homble burned and two died at once the rest wco wc we o taken to a hospital and four died in a short time the two others are not expected to live i the men ere all italians cans and russians the monetary losa loss will reach into hundreds of thousands of dollars about five hundred trainmen in this state began friday receiving an all increase in wies wares of 10 r cent this means an added exi nse of eighty thousand dollars to utah railroads x apt pt the denver and rio giarre graire Gr aire arre as the result of the recently closed agreement at chicago between the managements manage menta of ol the linen lines centering there and the railroad men J |