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Show IT WAS HORRIBLE i v Three Hundred Children Were Made Fatherless. BY THE MINE EXPLOSION In. Wyoming Heart-rend ins Scenes Blanckthe Murderer and Jail Breaker Meets His Death at the Hands of Officers Offi-cers in a Desperate Encounter. JSvanston, Wy., March 21, The total to-tal number now known to have perished per-ished in the mine disaster at lied Canyon yesterday evening, is sixty, of which fifty one are married men, and nine young men and boys. Thirty-eight unrecovered bodies aie yet in the mine. The timbering has been largely blown out, and the walls and roof of the whole interior are - cracked and snattered so that the lives of the volunteer vol-unteer Bearching party of eighteen, now seeking the bodies of their comrades, com-rades, are every moment in danger. A coroner's jury has been empaneled, empan-eled, which views the remains as tbey are brought to the surface, and turned over to relatives. The agonizing screams of widows and children about the mouth of the mine beggars description. The mine at lied Canyon, wbere the explosion took place last evening, is now on fire and considerable volumes of smoke are iesuing from the air shafts. he ecenes about the mine all la3t night and today have been heartrending heart-rending in the extreme, and grief-utricken grief-utricken and hapless children haye mingled their Ecreams together, as loved ones haye been brought to the surface, charred and mangled almost beyond recognition, while others came to realizo that no hopes lemained for those dearest to them again to be seen alive. The remaikable violence of the explosion can only be realized from the fatal results. Out of sixty-one affected, sixty are dead, and one, Andrew Mason, struck by flying timber outside, lies insensible awaiting death atany moment.N either man or beast w ithin the scope of its deadly reach survived. The mules in the mine thus far discovered lay as if struct by a powerful bolt of lightening, light-ening, their hair singed and flesh burnt, and lying as if they died without a struggle, bo doctors and experts say it was with the men. Every vital organ or-gan of the body was instantly shattered shat-tered and death was instantaneous and pa nle ;s . Thousands of people from all tae cuntry round haye visited the scene of devastation and death today, and none has seen who will ever forget for-get About thirty were members cf the A. O. U. W. and carry $2,000 insurance President W. W. Cluff, of Coalville, is expected here on the next train. Among the saddest reflection is the fact that the explosion makes at least three hundred children fatherfees, mpmmtt.l.. mi, ''iiiiiijiin.iiuiiiiijijif8WiiiiuiiiiWiiiiMii iiiiji.wj |