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Show WILL ABANDON MINE. As Soon as Bodies Are Recovered, Coal Mine at Hanna Will be Sealed Up. Hanna, Wyo. Tho bodies of only five of tho flfty-nlno minors nnd mlno officials killed In tho lll-fatcd mlno No. 1 of tho Union Pnclflc Coal com-rnny com-rnny havo been recovered. Other bodies will probably not bo reached for several dayB. Tho widows and orphans nro bo-ing bo-ing cared for nnd there Is no destitution. destitu-tion. Tho entrances of tho mlno wltcro tho dead miners nro entombed hnvo been scaled, and until tho flro Is smothered or some method is do-vised do-vised for lifting tho lethnl gasos which fill tho workings, and It bo-comes bo-comes posslblo to go down tho slopo nnd light tho llnmus nt closo quarters, quar-ters, no effort to enter tho mlno will bo made, for certain death undoubtedly undoubt-edly would nwnlt thoso who dared venture Mcnnwhllo, great forces of men are inbnrlng nt both stopo entrances, en-trances, removing wreckngo. So titanic ti-tanic wcro tho blasts of burning gns thnt tho lining of tho vtopes was stripped and hurled forth to fall in fragments over n wldo oxpnnso of prairie. Timbers as largo as telegraph tele-graph poles woro thrown 1,000 feet from tho pit. Mnny suits for damages will bo brought at onco against tho conl company com-pany by relatives of tho victims, and II. is estimated thnt this doublo disaster dis-aster will cost tho operators not less titan $500,000. Tho holocaust of 1903 cost tho company more than $1,000,-000. $1,000,-000. It Is announced now thnt this mlno will bo abandoned nnd sealed ns soon as tho bodies nro recovered. Thero 1b talk of petitioning tho governor gov-ernor to nppolnt a commission of experts ex-perts to proho this dlsnntor, and II tho rumors nfloat as to tho unsafo condition of tho colliery nro verified, then efforts will bo mado to closo It through process of lnw. |