Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-03-24 | Page 1 | Death List Growing

DEATH LIST GROWING Century Mine Disaster Greatest Greatest Greatest Great Great- est in History of the State Ii s u W Vo Va l I r 13 N Nt Jim t rif 5 t o. o JQ El ml t In ih ti tim In tlc tIC Century mine amine yesterday ay and the tho ho death list Wet will probably m reach os high as ns thirty Fourteen bo les Ja e al already al- al ready been recovered red and J 11 I Is expected expect ed that several more arc aie In the mine while ten tell diggers dl are arc ml missing Nearly all of the bodies bodle recovered reco so fur far are those of foreigners an and tho the fact that they hey the worked by b numbers In Instead instead In- In stead of name nome makes tho he work worl of Iden l Identification on- on extremely difficult While the death list was waH not as large as ns In iii previous explosions it was the tIme worst st disaster that has JH ever CI happened In iii this state The Thc bodies S of oC the thc dead miners were l literally blown tc to ees an and dismembered corpses and fragments frag ments of or human bodies are found at every cry turn In the vicinity of the tile mine Gas accumulating nar near the this higher altitudes of o time the mine milt was as the time cause of oC the tile explosion The state tate authorities have taken time the th matter In hum charge und amid are arc making a rigid investigation