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Show TRAGIC death of HEROIC MINERS four Men Arc Overcome by Gas in Utah Mine, Being Dead Before Help Came. Three Meet Death In Heroic Attempt to Save Life of an Italian Who Had Become Overcome by Foul Air In Mine. Salt I-nkc City. Four men met death, while, forty others were overcome over-come by tho fumes of gas In tho workings of the Utah Copper com pany at lllngham, on Saturday. Tho deadly fumes that proved fatal to four of tho mining men were In what Is known lis n gopher, a small working below tho tunnel of tho mine. An Italian miner was the tlrst victim of the fumes. His body was found lying across the ladder half way up from tho gopher. Relieving thnt there was another Italian working work-ing In tho gopher, n rescue party of flvo men, consisting of Kent Smith, assistant superintendent of the Utah Copper company; Hugh Hums nnd (ieorgo Wilson, steam shovel men, nnd Oscar Mann, n brnkeman, nnd nnothcr brnkeman known as "Ruby." Tho first three named went Into tho gopher to search for the body of tho second Italian which they expected to llnd In the working. The two brake-men brake-men lowered them Into the hole by a winch and were prepared to haul thum out In case they were overcome. Tht men. however, wcro unable to got back to tho rope. The two hrakemen nt tho ontranco to tho gopher were also overcome, hut they revived after they had been carried out Into the air. The air was so foul that tho bodies of the three men In tho gopher could not bo leached until 11 o'clock nt night, nnd then only nfter tho foul air hnd been pumped out of tho working to a Inrgo extent. Efforts to revive tho men proved futile. For hours almost every ono who ventured near the opening Into tho working wns overcome. Tho mines of the Boston Consolidated nnd tho Utah Consolidated companies were closed nnd tho men sent to assist In tho work of rescue Forty or fifty mlntcrs who nsslsted In the rescue work hnd to be carried out of the tun-no's, tun-no's, suffering from tho deadly effects of tho fume?. It seems that tho Italian laborer had become overcome, nnd wns deserted de-serted by two companions, who reached tho mouth of tho tunnel completely com-pletely overcome by tho fumes of the foul air. Kent Smith, tho general foreman of tho plant, headed a party to go to tho Italians' assistance. It was In endeavoring to rescuo the Itnl-Inn Itnl-Inn thnt the other men lost their lives. |