Show NOT A MAN ESCAPED FEARFUL EXPLOSION IN A COLO RADO MINE every miner at work when the acci dent occurred Is killed the elpio slon being caused by coal gas the rocky mountain coal iron company mine no at tercio forty miles west of trinidad colo was so badly wrecked by the explosion which occurred on saturday that the resau ere have not yet succeeded in pene trat ing to the point where the miners were working estimated of the number of men in the mine at the time vary from twenty to sixty they are foreigners with the exception of tour the mine company s officials have no record of the number working though it Is known that only twenty one men went into the mine in the morning according to reports which have not been verified many more men went into the mine in the afternoon it Is regarded as certain that none of those who were in the mine when the explosion occurred are now alive the mine is a sloping tunnel over 2 feet long rescuers entered the slope as far as room 13 which Is feet from the mouth they succeeded in reaching this point only after the moat dangerous work and after crawl ing through many narrow places at this point they encountered a solid wall of rock that had fallen from above and closed the passage the explosion was caused by coal gas which caused the root to cave in the crash was so terrific that it was heard for miles and the vibrations were distinctly felt at newton gwehe miles awa it seemed as it an earth quake had occurred violently did the earth tremble smoke dust and dirt were blown from the tunnel and air shaft in heavy black clouds broken timbers huge chunks of coal and blocks of all sizes were hurled hundreds of feet from the portal of the big bore and tell on and around the tipple that stands directly opposite the mine people who were near the mine were showered with sand stones and dirt some of the stones landed fully a quarter of a mile away |