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Show THIRTY-SEVEN MINERS MEET DEATH IN COLORADO MINE Bodies Frightfully Mangled and Burned by Coal Dust Blast That Rocked Mountain. Newcastle, Colo. Coal dust In a tunnel driven far back into a mountain moun-tain blew up with a detonation like that of a thousand cannon; fla.ne and smoke shot from the mouth of a mine; the whole mountain rocked a If an earthquake, and thirty seven men, trapped by the explosion, were dead. The men in charge of the reacue work at the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company here summarized the reaulta of the explosion explo-sion at 10:20 Tuesday morning as follow: Men in mine, 39; rescued alive (from upper level), 2; dead. 37, including in-cluding every man working in the lower level. Among the dead are I L. Crawford, mine foreman, and L. Walters, fire boss. All the victim were married, and all but alx or elgbj. were American,' moat of them son of ranchmen and business men of Newcastle and the surrounding country. coun-try. Many of the bodies were frightfully mangled and burned by the blast that wrecked the mine. Wlvea and children chil-dren of the victim crowded about the mouth of the mine, hysterical in their grief. Mine officials perauaded a many of them a possible to go back to the town, where they were cared for by friends and relatvles. |
