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Show rror D A niliTG I1U Silk KAulnlu IW Virginia City, New, May -24 At least four men have perished in a fire raging today in the lower levels of the Yellow Jacket mine near here. Two bodies have been recovered. The fire started last night. The Yellow Jacket mine is one of tho famous Comstock lode properties, rich in the bonanza days. Its production pro-duction of gold has fallen off in later years and now it is flooded with water up to the sixteen hundred foot level It has produced about 525.000.000 in ores and is owned by E. B. Sturges. Scranton. Pa , head of the Yellow Jacket Gold Mining company with offices of-fices in San Francisco. Fire at 1600 Foot Level. San Francisco, May 24. At the San Francisco offices of the company it was stated that no definite information informa-tion as to the fire had been received except that it had started at the sixteen six-teen hundred foot level the deepest level a which operations in the mine are now being conducted J The total depth of the mine is some- over two thousand feet. A similar J conflagration occurred a year ago with h ' no casualties. Mining men who know the property t said there was very little timbering except in the shafts and that exits were numerous. Most of the mine, i they said, was cut from solid rock and the fire would have nothing to work on. j |