Show t SIXTY MINERS MEET DEATH gas on in same M ne in wh ch in 1903 one hundred and 8 aty nine L ves were snuffed out v hanna wyo this camp was vis cited by another catastrophe saturday afternoon and the lives of probably men were snuffed out by an ex of gas in mine no 1 of the union pacific coal company A fire had been raging below the tenth level for a week and the force of min ers had been laid off for the day fear ing an accident might occur super in briggs and foreman bur ton with a crew of eighteen men all experienced miners with gas men ind fire fighters went down into the corkings early in the morning to fight the conflagration which was rapidly eating its way through the workings at 3 the men above the workings the idle miners in their homes and about town were startled by an awful roar followed by a heavy boom and the shaking of the earth and trembling of the buildings all knew what had happened and there was a rush to the mine both entries had caved in and mine timbers had been blown great distances about the outside workings relief parties went to work to secure the bodies tor they knew there was little hope of any of the men being alive while the relief party was at work a second explosion occurred the second explosion occurred at 10 30 clock at night snuffing out the lives of the members of a rescue party including state mine inspector D M the names of the men killed in the first explosion were as pertained certa ined from the company s books but those of the rescuers were not known as no record was kept of those who volunteered tor this dangerous work that none hesitated in responding to the call for volunteers in the res cue of their fellow workmen after the first explosion is shown in the tact that not a working official of the three mines of the union pacific coal corn pany in this camp is left all were in the mine seeking to aid their stricken friends when the second ex transformed mine no 1 into a shambles A further evidence that the leaders of the men of the camp were there is shown in the fact that every official member of the local lodge of united mine workers of america is missing supposedly dead in the mine the disaster brings the number of victims of explosions in mine no 1 during the twenty years of its opera tion to the neighborhood of the greatest previous loss of life occurred on june 30 1903 when men fell victims to deadly gas |