Show OF mill four men are overcome by gas in utah mine being dead before help came three meet death in ceroc aftem attempt pt to save life of an ital an who had become overcome by foul air in mine salt lake city CAY four men met death while forty others were over come by the fumes of gas in the workings of the utah copper corn com pany at bingham on saturday the deadly fumes that proved fatal to four of the mining men were in what Is I 1 as a gopher a small working below the tunnel of the mine an ital an in ner was the first victim of the fumes his body was found lying across the ladder halt half way up from the gopher believing that there was another italian italia n work ing in the gopher a rescue party of 0 five file men consisting of kent lent smith assistant superintendent of the utah copper company hugh burns and george steam shovel men and oscar mann a brakeman and another brakeman known as rub ruby the first three named went into the gopher to search tor for the body of the second ital an which they expected to find in the working the two brakemen lowered them into the hole by a winch and were prepared to haul than thim 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 relived after they had been carried out into the air the air was so foul that the bodies of the three men in the gopher could not be reached until 11 clock at night and then only after the foul air ir had been pumped out of the working to a large extent efforts to revive the men proved futile for hours almost every one who ventured near the opening into the working was aas overcome 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 work had to be carried out of the tun nes suffering from the deadly effects of the fume fumed it seems that the italian laborer bad had become overcome and was de parted by two companions who reached the mouth of the tunnel corn com plemely overcome by the fames of the foul air kent smith the general foreman of the plant headed a party to go to the italians assistance it was in endeavoring to rescue the ital an that the other men loat lost their lives live |