Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-04 | Page 2 | Eight Miners' Bodies Found

EIGHT MINERS MINERS' 9 BODIES FOUND Explosion Wrecks V reeks Cages Work With Gas Masks s CLAY Ky Aug Au 4 By 4 By The Associated Hope Hope of the death list resulting from an explosion ex explosion ex- ex explosion here yesterday In the tho No 7 mine of the tho West w t Kentucky Coal company eventually total total- totalling totalling ling less than ban sixteen was rU abandoned abandoned abandoned today by officials Eight bodies had been recovered and rescue cre g worked In relays at full speed to reach eight el ht others other remaining unaccounted for and believed dead CLAY Ky Aug 4 By By The As As- Associated Associated Associated Press Three unidentified bodies were found early today by res rear rescue rescue cue workers In the No 7 mine of the West Wet Kentucky Coal company where an explosion occurred 1 yesterday Tho The total number of known dead was seven with nino men still missing Positive Identification has been made of the bodies of James Meyer 60 GO George Cole Mark Townsend and Arthur Shelton all found yesterday The three bodies discovered today were those the of miners In the tho list of 12 men for whom the rescue workers are pushing their search FEAR ALL ARE ARC DEAD The explosion yesterday occurred on the tenth entry of the mine and the four bodies were found on tho seventh level The rescue workers were ham ham- hampered hampered hampered In their progress os as all the brat brat- brattices brattices tices of the pit shaft were destroyed In the explosion They were forced to construct new brattices as they went down do into the pit and had progressed as far as tho the eighth level Tho The 12 men who are missing were be believed be- be believed to be on the tenth level where the explosion occurred Little hope is held that they are alive The air in the mine was reported to be bad and Dyed Samson Sa ms n one of or orthe the ono forty rescue workers was overcome by afterdamp He was brought to the surface and revived through first aid treatment No fire has been discovered thus far f r. r