Show HUNDRED TRAPPED IN BLAZING MINE DISASTER IN COLORADO COAL COALMINE COALMINE COALMINE MINE BRINGS SORROW TO MANY HOMES Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Dust Wrecks Workings and Blaze that Followed Snuffs Out Out Lives of Surviving Miners Trinidad Colo Trapped Trapped in a blazing blaz bias ing lug mine 1 0 or oi more men are believed be be- to have perished There seems no chance of escape for any of tile the men caught behind the tile fire which broke out following an explosion ex ex- ex- ex on April 20 26 In iii the Hastings mine of the tile Victor American Fuel company near Ludlow All of tile the bodies found were badly burned indicating that a n sheet of flame swept through the mine after the explosion probably l killing ilUng all nil of ot the men in the mine Instantly The explosion which caused the disaster dis disaster dis- dis aster is said sald to have ha been caused causell by p JI su sudden den change of temperature re re- re suIting In spontaneous combustion of coal dust The disaster is one of the greatest In the history of the tile SOUt southern Colorado Colom Colo Cob m ratio rado o coal mining district The few if any who WilO escaped the flames that swept the tite Interior of the tile mine are believed believed be be- to have hae been suffocated |