Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-05 | Page 2 | Fatal Explosion in a Coal Mine

FATAL EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE wilburton Wl lburton okia thirteen miners were entombed and probably killed by an explosion at 1 20 sunday morning in the Miso surl kansas texas coal company mine no 19 four miles west of here there Is little prospect of their bodies being recovered tor sev eral days the men went into the shaft at midnight foreman william ray of the shift that left the mine at that hour states that the mine was in good condition and a gas explosion was hardly probable his shift left a shot hanging which the new shift may have pred it Is suggested from the force of the explosion which could be heard tor miles around and which tore heavy timbers aside and piled tons of dirt into the shaft that a bad shot had set off some dynamite which had been stored conveniently for work in pushing the entries the shaft Is feet deep and it was feet to the place where the men were work ing the men were supplied with air fanned from the shaft and by means of compressed air tubes it Is the gen eral opinion that the air pipe was burst by the explosion