Show MEET DEATH IN MINE SEVEN MEN DEAD AND THREE INJURED IN FIRE IN A NEVADA MINE accident caused by oil explosion the men being caught on the 1400 foot level and forced to pass through flame flames ely ner seven men met death and nd three others were seriously I 1 in 11 lured early thursday in a it fire which swept s ept tho the new lve five apartment haft shaft of 0 tho the giro ciro ix ii consolidated mines lines company here two bodies remain in the workings doth both shafts of the mino mine haie hae been sealed to smother the flames the fire wae was caused it is believed i by the explosion of a barrel ol 01 ell oll at the I 1 uniting station on the 1200 foot toot level of the new shaft ten men met were working at the I 1 1400 foot level at the time and they the looked up to see the abaft shaft above them filled flames they at once boarded the cage and started for the surface they en countered the lames flames at the 1200 foil fot level and stopped lire live of the men left the cage and started to walk through the 1200 foot level to the old alpha shaft 00 feet away throng which they hoped to climb out of the mine the five men remaining in the cag cage e gave the signal to hoist and were pulled through ho the blazing shaft one waa was dead deau when the top was reached and the others were taken to a hos has pita pital the work of rescuing tho the five men remaining in the nine little was then at tempted through the alpha shaft but without success |