Show IN MINES EIGHT MEN KILLED BY GAS EX IN SHAFT OF WASH INGTON PROPERTY column of fire thrown hundreds of feet into the air ignited the shaft plant and adjoining build causing fearful conflagration roslyn wash eight men were killed and three fatally injured in an explosion don of gas in the shaft of mine no 4 of the northwestern improve ment company at 12 45 sunday after noon when the explosion occurred a col dmn of fire was thrown hundreds ot of feet into the air igniting the shaft plant and adjoining buildings under the intense heat the hoist of the shaft crumbled and tell fell into the fur nace below cinders were blown in all directions and buildings in varl ous parts of the little mining town took fire the citizens were able to te extinguish these small fires and the roslyn fire department aided by apparatus and men sent from Cle elura three rules away aay finally confined the blaze to the main buildings of the mine the scene in roslyn immediately following the accident was one 01 ol wild confusion men women and children chil chiI dien rushed from their homes at the sound of the explosion and hur ried to the mine it was not known how many men were working in the shaft and people ran frantically about searching tor for relatives in the crowd that gathered near the burning shaft the mines of the northwestern im provement pro company are the largest in the state and have a producing ca lacity of 8 tons they employ 2 men the loss of shaft no 4 which was one of the biggest prodoc 4 i r operal ppe raL abyah wit 1 materially affect the coal output of 0 the state |