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Show hml mL Twelve Asn Known to ' Have Been Killed and Others Arc Missing Delagna. Colo., Nov. 9 Twelve men are known to have been kllb-d In the explosion that wrecked a portion por-tion of Mine No. 3. of th.- Victor American Am-erican Fuel company nere yesterday. Nine- men were" rescued alive and 1C still are believed to rc In the mine. The dead: WILLIAM LEWIS, mine superintendent. superin-tendent. W. J. EVANS, assistant superintendent. superin-tendent. WILLIAM KII. PATRICK, outside foreman. LLEWELLYN EVANS, pit ls. DAVID BELL, nrotoruian JAMES J. YOUNG, master mechanic. mechan-ic. WILLIS EVANS, engineer of Colo rndu Fuel & Iron company at Pri :nero. JAMES DENNETT, motorman. L. MARTIN, car tender. BERT JENNINGS, weipht boss. TWO I'NIDENTIFITD MEN. I Willis Evans, a young engineer of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company gave his life in the rescue of tho four miners taken out allve last nliht Evans, who graduated from the Colorado Colo-rado School of Mines only two year. ago, came to Deligua with the rescue car of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company com-pany yesterday afternoon. Ho joined the paity searching the fourth entry equipped with oxvgen helmets. They worked their way along the entry and heard the faint tapping of a pick on solid rock, the wireless call of the miner. Realizing that at least fodic or their comrades wore olive, they attacked the fallen :nass of rock that blocked the entry with renewed hope. When they tore through the cave, they found four Slav miners alive and unhurt. They were 2.C10 feet from the surface and the passage were tilled with afterdamp. after-damp. The rescuers feared to take the imprisoned im-prisoned men to the surface without helmets and. without a moment's hesitation. hes-itation. Evans and one of the other . rescuers toole off their helmets and gave them to the rescued men anil waited for the return of the rescue part-. When the rescuers returned Evans had disappeared - . j The rescue party supposed lie hail followed them out without a helmet They discovered h'm at 11 o'clock last night unconscious from as. He had evidently attempted to reach the surface and had been lost. He never regained consciousness and died at 6:4"i this mornlntr. His brother. Wallace Evans, was also a member of the Colorado Kuel & Iron company crew and was al most frantic with crlef as he stood at his brother's side nn fought in ( vain to revive him. lTs body was brought to Ttlnidad. The bureau ef mines rescue car. which was rushed to Delagna from Denver, arrived here at u o'clock this morning J. C. Roberts, In charge of the car, and his men aio working "Uh the fuel company's men. The fire which is blamed for the explosion is believed to have started In a broken entrv ecur which riiught fire throuch some unknown means. The fire has been extinguished Lewis. Young. Llewellyn, Evans and Bell were killed by a fall of rock within 200 feet of the entrance of the main stope. They had been notified of a fire In the mine and started In the slope with the fire hose when the explosion ex-plosion occurred. Their bodies have not been recovered. Jennings, Bennett and Martin were fitnndlng at the mouth of the main slope and were killed by flying rocks. More Dead Bodies. Delagna, Colo., Nov. 9. The bodies of thirty-five men were found In the north entry where the explosion originated, or-iginated, at 11 o'clock. They , are being brought out slowly over the debris, but are not yet Identified, Iden-tified, j |
