Show MINE ON FIRE between 12 and 1 monday ma waa was discovered issuing from tho the mouth of tho the tunnel of the black hawk coal mino mine at blackhawk and to date all efforts to get at tho the fire and erti cylc m auls it have been unavailing while no fatalities havo have resulted ted sever several members of the rescue crow trying to get got to tho the fira have been slightly in jurod monday afternoon pounds of lumber for building bulkheads and brattices bratt ices lees was hipped shipped from this city by express and efforts were mido made to close the entries bul but explosions of pas gas monday night and tuesday noon blew out these those obstruction obstructions and tuesday shortly before midnight night enough dynamite was purposely exploded in the entries to block them thein with rock and dirt since that time there have been no explosions and smoke has ceased to issue from the tho entries there were a few men in ii the tha mine miao when the fire was discovered and anti all got out in safety but ahn tho the of tuesday noon occurred lon loon r son of the president oa the con company and four or five other men were in the tunnel and were shocked and knocked down by the force of the explosion which was in a eido sido tunnel so the men did not get got tho the full force of the concussion sion bruce hinkin lid lsd several ribs broken and art heavener Hea voner and H were slightly bruised during the first few hours of the fire efforts were made to get at it with the aid of rescue appliances owned by the company compau and shortly after noon monday the tho rescue car arrived ir rived from bingham but the combined equipment wai was not sufficient to permit a near approach to the flames the fire is supposed to bo be about 1000 feet from tho the portal and how it started is not known it was at first reported that someone had pur st sit the mine on fire but superintendent Superintend tnt lewis informs the news that there is no way of knowing the origin of aba blaze |