Show w EXPLOSION IN MINES EIGHT MEN KILLED BY GAS E IN SHAFT OF washington PROPERTY column of fire thrown hundred hundreds of feet into the air ignited the shaft plant and adjoining building buildings causing fearful conflagration roelyn roslyn wash eight men were hilled killed and three fatally injured in an explosion of gas in the shaft of mine no 4 of the northwestern imar improvement vs company at 1245 1246 sunday alter noon when the explosion occurred a col dmn of fire are was thrown hundred hundreds of 0 feet into tt air igniting the shaft plant and adjoining building buildings under the intense heat het the hoist of the shaft crumbled and foil fell into the fur nace below cinders wera were blown in all directions and building buildings in vari 1 ous parts of the little town took fire the citizens vore ere aule aie to extinguish these small crea fires and tac wc roslyn fire department aided by apparatus and men sent from Cle Clo elum three roles mien away finaly confined the blaze to the th main alu buildings of the nine mine rhe scene in roslyn immediately following the accident was one of wald confusion men women omen and children rushed from their homs at the sound of the explosion and wid hurried to the mine it was not known how many men ware were working in the baft and people ran frantically about searching ear ching tor for relatives in the crowd that gathered near the burning the mines of the northwestern improvement pro company are the largest in the state and have a producing ca opacity of 8 tons tans they employ aboff men the loee lose of shaft no 1 4 which was one of the biggest prodoc ers era operated by the company will materially affect the coal output of the gate |