Show S f J four men are overcome by gas in utah mine being dead before help came three meet death in heroic attempt to save life of an italian who had become overcome by foul air in M ne salt lake city four men met death while forty others were over come by the fumes ot gas in the worl ings of the utah copper corn pany at gingham on saturday the deadly fumes that prove I 1 fatal to our of the mining men were in what Is known as a gopher a arall working be lowthe tunnel of the mine an italian miner was the first victim of the fumes his tody was found lying across the ladder halt way up from the gopher believing that there was another italian work ing in the gopher a rescue party of five men consisting of kent smith assistant of the utah copper company hugh burns and george wilson steam shovel men and osair mann a brakeman and another brakeman known as ruby the first three named went into the gopi ep to search for the body of the second italian which they expected to fini in the working the two brake men lowered them into the hole by a winch aej were prepared to ha il them out in case they were overcome the men however were unable to get back to the rope the two brakemen at the entrance to the gopher were also overcome but they revived after had been carried out into the air the air wa so foul that ane bodies of the three men in the gopher could not be reached until 11 clock at night and then only after the foul air had been pumped out of the working to a large efforts to revive the men proved futile for hours almost every one who ventured near the opening into the working was come the mines of the boston consolidated and the utah consolidated companies were closed and the men sent to assist in the work of rescue forty or fifty minters who assisted in the rescue w ork had to be carried out of the tun nels suffering from the deadly effects of the fumes it seems that the italian laborer tad become overcome and was de exerted by two companions who cached the mouth of the tunnel corn overcome by the fumes of the foul air kent smith the general foreman of the plant headed a party to go to the italians assistance it was endeavoring to rescue the ital an that the other men lost their ives |