OCR Text |
Show MEET DEATH IN MINE SEVEN MEN DEAD AND THREE INJURED IN FIRE IN A NEVADA MINE. Accident Caused by Oil Eaplosion, the Men Being Caught on the 1.400 Foot Level and Farced to Pass Through Ftamee. 1)1). Nev Si Veil men met death and three others were aerliiusly Injured In-jured mrly Thursday In a lite which nwepi the new flve-compartmeut abaft of the Hlrniix-f utmollililtfd Mllica company here. Two bodice remain ill the wolkmcs lloth shafts of Hie mine blive belli sealed lo Klllolhcr the II. nil. The lire wan caused. It Is belleveil. by the explos on of a barrel of nil at tin- pumpiiiK slat. on on the 1,'JnO loot level of the new hull. Ten men were wot kiln; at the I Ion foot level at the tune, mid thev liMiked up to a-e Hie Mhllft III, live them Piled wtib Ha men. l iny iit once boarded Ihn ciute uml started for Ihe aurfacn. 1 hey en countered the names ut the 1,2'iO foot level ami slopped. Five nf the men left the ence nnd ntnrlel to walk tbrouuh the I -"" -foot level to Ihe old Alpha shall, Toil fell away, ihrniich which they hopeil to climb out of the mine Thn five men n niii nlln; In Hie ditto Piivn the rlKiial to hoist mi l were pulled thn null the blaltu; ihalt tine wun dead whin the top win reached and the others were taken lo a hospital. hos-pital. The work of rescttliiic Hie live men leiiialicint In Ihe mine wna then nt-itvmpti nt-itvmpti t thrum. h Ihe Alpha shall, but w It limit fin cess. |