Show 1141 FIFTY MINERS ARE ENTOMBED workings filled with deadly G gas fol fo lowing terrific explosion the men being caught in trap trinidad colo fifty Elf tyone one miners were entombed in the starkville Stark Star TilIe kville mine eight miles from here the results of an explosion which occurred about 10 30 0 clock saturday night the explosion practically destroyed the old slope of the mine and the new slope is 13 so thoroughly filled with gas and black damp that entrance of rescue parties by this route was impossible it is fead d that none of the men will ba rescued alive the Star starkville kville mine has not been working a night shift until recently when the demand for its output became so heavy that the day shift could not meet it then a night shift which usually consisted of about men was put to work while practically all the miners working in the Star starkville kville mine ate of at foreign birth miny have been in this country for twenty to twenty alve years and a largo large portion of fiem have been working in the Star starkville kville mine ever since it beean becan operations in 1892 the mine mihe la Is the property of the santa fe railroad but is operated by the colorado fuel iron company |