Show FORTY WYOMING MINERS INJURED dust explosion caused by runaway cars at rock springs rock springs wyo forty men were injured twenty of them seriously by an explosion of coal dust in mine no 10 of the union pacific coal company thursday afternoon the ex was caused by a string of five runaway cars which dashed down the alope on the rails for feel feet jumped the track and continued several hundred feet farther on the floor of the slope raising a dense cloud of coal dust at the mouth of entry no 3 forty miners were waiting to be hauled to the surface their lamps ignited the dust cloud and a ter terrific rifle explosion occurred every man was burned and battered and a score were seriously hurt the mine timbers at the point were destroyed and a number of heavy doors were blown out the damage Is not sufficient to crip cripple pl the mina mine |