Show EN M MAY tAY ALL BE DEAD Rescue Party at Gladstone Unable Unable Unable Un Un- able to Penetrate Smoke Smoke- Filled Fied Shaft Shaf Silverton Colo Cob June C. C hirl G. three men are entombed in lim II the tile Gold Guld King hing King mine at Gladstone A re rescue cuc parly front from attempted to en enor enter en- en ter or the the mine mile at 10 They IH passed sed into the thc 1 foot 1500 foot OO-foot tunnel and descended the time shaft shaf to the third thid t 10 level I but were vere forced to return to tho the bore level by foul air and smoke caused by thc tue destruction of oC the surface buildings In Thursday nights night's lire fire tre The Thc three thirty me men are believed to be below the third level but what the thc air nh conditions at that point and down to fifth and anni last levels are can only be surmised cd It I Is 15 feared that tho ho air in III the lower r levels Is worse than above e. abo anti and if such is tho the case cae then er e every one of the thirty three men is probably dead ead Gases Enter Mine Mimic The Tile lire fire Thursday night which was probably of or Incendiary ori origin ln destroyed des des- troyed the buildings Including tile the electric transformer hou house e The rho gases and smoke caused b by tho Ore lire fre were I sucked ckel Into the lie mine where a number of or men were worl working The rhe destruction Lion tion ton of or the time electric power plant made it impossible to pump fresh air all into frito the tile workings working or to tu operate the cage in ill the thc shaft shaf at the en end of the tunnel Tin Tin- Tit buildings destroyed were at nt the tile mouth of oC tho the tunnel tunnel The Tho rescue party parly was wa forced arced to descend descend des des- es- es end by means u of a ladder The Thc entombed en on- men ilien have been in thc the mine since the he lire fire fre on Thursday night night |