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Show 150 MB KILLED HI SCOFIELD, UTAH, Worst Mine Explosion In the History of the West. ra.t ir II.. riplixlnn a Mr.l'rr '" llln l.....i.l.,..l nt III II...II-. Ilnnnnl ai,.l lnr "" I" '-rnlr,l '-rnlr,l li.r-ll-.ll.. Iln,.,ll- llntillM llin lll lUiup. ll.ili lm ltr. Klllril n ll hock u( lh I .ilxlon The tnixl terrible mine explotlon ever reennle.l In the wtt occurred at tunnel No. i of the 1'lraa.int Valley Coal company a iiiloraatHeoneld, I'lah, at 10:n a m , May I. At midnight 117 men, nearly all hraila of faiulllca, lay alrelclird out In the cmnpany'a boarding hoiiae at the mouth of the tunnel and from Ml lo 7"i tiiru yet rr-main rr-main lo be arrnunlrd for That nearly all of Ihoe will lie recovered dead la not doubtr-J Throrlra at to the direct eaiite of the captation illlfer materially, ami It will take tome time to arrive at a correct conelutlun lllthop Thome I'lrmlry, tiiperlnten-lent tiiperlnten-lent of operation, glvra It at hla opinion that the explotlon wat brought aliout by giant pomlrr which waa laken Into llio mine by tome of the miner, that r-tilnl In innn unar-oiuntnbte unar-oiuntnbte way. Igniting the iliut, and thereby rautliig an rtplutlou. Thlt mine hat Ixrru worked for over twenty year, anil hat the trputatlon, according to Slut,- Mlno Intpeetnr 'I Imiiiat, of lielng one of the l-t ven-tllateil ven-tllateil ami pmlrclwl In the neat, lie ttalm that tie Inaprrlad It IrM than Ave neka ago, and brlievnl It entirely tafe at that time It Ima never had had air and hat alwavt been free fmui gat. and at the rual I all loaded with thovela, there bat lint btvu a Urge fi-eutuulatinii fi-eutuulatinii nf dtiat. Nlne-trntlin nf the men killed are i AnierU-ana mid V-11, The former come inuttljr from t tab, with a kinall number from rnineee and fiilorailo I It t iliatreaaliig to wlturM thetcvnia of nlld torrnw. In untie Inalaiiira the whole family except the mother la gone. In iithrrt a wife and tevrral children arc left without tiipport. and thrru it miari'cly a home In Neulleld thnt It not In mourning. Two hutidri-il burlalrutlllahavebcen I ordered. Salt take could f urulili but lM..ud the rmiilndjvciiuuidcrud. from Denver by itiegrapn lit aevrral famlllrt rvrry male member mem-ber it numbered with the ilexd. A retculng party of twenty men tried to gain an entrance Into No, t through the opening of No, I, but the men neru toon forord back br the lire damp. The partlea then headed tor No. 4. Here they found the air bcglunlng to circulate, and after clearing away the fallen and dead hortea at the mouth of the mine they enlcrrd about two hundred hun-dred Tarda when they raiua upon the dead bodlra of all ot the men. John Klrlon wat tho llrtl one brought out, at about It o'clock, hit whole acalp being burned to n cinder and hit face unrecognisable. lie waa a till allvo and apparently euntclout, crying out In agony for hla fellow-comrade to end hla mlaery by killing lilmou the IOt. |