Show sim MINERS H HERS MEET DEATH IN MINE E gas explosion in same mine in ill which in 1903 one hundred and S aty n ne lives were snuffed out hanna wyo this camp was vis cited by another catastrophe saturday afternoon and the lives of probably sixty men were mere snuffed out by an ex of gas in mine 1 no 1 of the union pacific coal company A fire had been raging below bedow the tenth level for a week and the force of min ers had been laid off tor for the day fear ing an accident might occur super in briggs and foreman bur dur ton with a crew of eighteen men all experienced miners with gas men ind fire fighters went down into the early in the morning to feht the conflagration which was rapidly eating its way through th the workings at 3 0 clock the men above the workings the idle miners in their homes and about town were startled by an awful roar followed by a beav heavy y boom and the shaking of the earth and trembling of the buildings all knew what had happened ind there was a rush to the mine both doth 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 for they knew there was little hope 0 of any of the men being alive while the rel et of party was at work a second explosion occurred the second explosion occurred at 10 30 0 clock at night snuffing out the lives of the members of a rescue party including state mine aline inspector D M the names of the men killed in the first explosion were as from the comp company anys s books but those of the rescuers were not known as no record was kept of those who volunteered for this dangerous work that none hesitated in responding to the call for volunteers in the res ue of their fellow workmen after the first explosion is shown in the fact that not a working official of the three mines of the union pacific coal corn coin pany in this camp is left all were in the mine seeking to aid their stricken ricken tt 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 hown in the fact that every official member of the local lodge of united mine aline workers of america is missing supposedly dead in the mine the disaster brings the number of victims of explosions in mine no I 1 during the twenty years of its opera tion to the neighborhood of NO the grea est previous loss of life occurred on june 30 1903 when men tell fell victims to deadly gas |