Show UNION P PACIFIc MINE EXPLOSION REPEATS TERRIBLE DISASTER U J Coal Gas and an Dust Take Fire in Deep Shaft Shaft and and Surrounding Surrounding Surround Surround Surround- ing B Buildings Are le Wrecked By Terrific Concussion Concussion Con Con- I Which Follows I I I INO NO Ej HOPE OF OF OF- RESCUING THE TIlE ENTOMBED MEN M N NL L Latest test Accident Occurs in Same Place Where 1 69 Lives' Lives Were Lost Five Years Ago in Catastrophe of o Similar Nature I nanna Wyo March 28 filJe 28 While a rc rescue cuc parly party of 50 GO minors miners were taking out the bodies of uC flo Robert elt Warburton James Knox J Joseph Burton and Peter Munson l at 10 1030 30 to lo nighta second explosion In the la east t shaft hart of mine number one completely h burled buried tile the re rescuers cuer an and It Il Is feared allwill allwill alL alLwill will bo bu dead lend before the re rescuing part that arrived late Jalc tonight from neighboring towns s can reach l the entombed relief party Jarly I Unless the they are reached tl d soon all raIl will bo ho killed hilled b by a afterdamp cenI even cen if IL they survived the explosion glitch was more terrific than tho the fit Hist one onet I Hanna JIanna i t March 2 The The lives of twenty men wore sacrificed t tHanna this afternoon when an o oi gas and oust lust In mine number ono of the Iho Union P Co Coal l company coin completely pl teI wrecked the w working shattered shatter shattered shatter shatter- r- r ed etl the tipples s a and 1 outside buildings up 1 0 rocked the tho surrounding l business houses hOusti In town Except for fol the fact tact that th Is was an Idle day at tho the mine the loss of or life Ufo would have been much greater I I 1 r II The Tho men inca who arc aie burled buried up in the bowels of the earth an and who I burned to death eath by uy the lire fire now Y ragIng raging rag rag- Ing ng in lii the workings If they were n not l killed outright by y the explosion welo vero Alexander Briggs mine super ten d ent Joseph Burton Durton foreman oreman of or Mine Min No 1 t James Kno Knox foreman No 3 3 1 Alfred Dodd foreman of Mine No 2 2 I John RImmer I Harry I Lyona yono f 1 Robert t Herron Henon 4 S John Evans E l P. 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A d j Gus Reamy r S 'S I r lI C c Warburton Va u ton J 0 n tI r tm n It I wOn K ne William Two 1 unknown men The bodies or of Jo Joseph ph l Hob Robert rt and Warburton-and nd James Jarne Knox have have- been beon recovered Fire Started In ill Colliery r Fire started In the colliery la last t Sund Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- d day since which time regular r attempts have o been made matlo to extinguish It Today Today To To- day dh Jt It was deemed unsafe to send the miners Into Inlo the lie levels and antl they were laid oft off Superintendent Brigs Briggs s with a band of ot picked men the best and antl most experienced ex ex- I hands in tho the camp wont vont Into Inlo the thc mine early carly this morning to fight the fire but at 2 o'clock the flames had gotten bc beyond ond their control control control con con- and at 3 o'clock connected with the walled off gas an and a 3 terrific ex explosion cx- cx followed The victims arc all oU below belo the tenth ol le and all hope of oC getting setting them out alive has been abandoned and antl It may mar be weeks weel s before the Ule bo bodies are arc recovered It is more than likely that tho the Hames have con consumed the corpses ere cro this It was in thid mine that ICO miners lost Jost their lives ies on Juno June 30 0 1903 by bya a similar explosion All l o u o Pall Families The Tho men nen who Jo lost t their lives lI today were v nil all married tl and leave leavo large families The wI widows and antl children aro are stricken grief and antl the lie scenes a about out the wrecked mine shafts where the women and antl children n are arc calling loudly to the relief workers to rescue their lov loved ul ones are heartrending ing Relief Re Hc- ito ito- lief r parties are aro being sent to lo Hanna from nearby towns to assist in the thc work of rescue Second Exp lon Follows A t second explosion occurred at 1030 tonight in the east cast shaft shutt where acang u. u gang cang of U SU U relief workers headed by State Mine Inspector David Ullas Ellas were about to remove e four of uC tho the victims of the first l explosion The shaft was filled with debris and antl all air all currents out cut off oct Tho The second explosion iun was more moro se severe severe se- se c- c vere than titan tho the first being f felt in all parts var-Is of the town and it Is feared that CO GO to 60 names havo have been added to the lie death list Miners and antl citizens rushed to the tho east cast shan shaft where they I were joined h by tho relief relict workers who were ere driven from tho the west shaft huft which was vas also caved In by the explosion and antl all set to work worl with a n. will to dig I out tho lie fifty entombed men Penetrating a tL short distance James Case Cast was found unconscious and was brought out Ho He could tell teU nothing nothing- about what happened inside and as fiS fiSho I ho IB is badly Injured it is feared all the others either r killed outright ht or will be smothered by lJ tho after after- damp As all nIl were volunteers and antl th lr names were not taken when the they en entered entered en- en a list of tho the victims of the see see- ond horror will wiil not be available until tomorrow or 01 until a house to house canvass is made matJe Few Fc Victims n. It Il Is known the following are arc among the he 50 ro relief workers entombed David Elias Ellas state slate mine Inspector E. E O. O n Richard Wilson il on I Frank rank Collins Frank Frnnk Burton Durton Felix Gundy Cundy Phillip Gardner r. r Peter Travis Tra Thomas Wakely akely and Alfred McCourt have havo summoned summoned sum sum- monee from neighboring coal camps and nil aU available laborers in section n and grading gangs alon along the railroad are arc hurrying to lO Hanna The Thc scenes cenes in iii town an and a about out the mine beggar description Tho The and children ren are now stricken panic-stricken and ami are aro rushing madly through the streets and up to lo the mines calling piteously for their loved ones 4 A miner mince named Jones has just been r rescued cued and he says ho he thinks thero there are aro 75 5 men burled d in tho the east shaft hat by b the Uio second explosion lie hI was carrying carrying car car- one of the men killed hilled In the first explosion an and there here were two m men inca n just ahead of oC him with corpses corpes nn and two jU just tt b behind him hini Those behind d him bm did not nol get out euL Only three thre bodies Havo to been recovered r d oC or Warburton War Wa burton anU antl Perry crry I S Ii J- J |