| Show I 1 ME a HOME 11 IDAHO 10 too hundred rounds or giant eil diode idling bibly wilt minim BURKE bunke idaho idabo aux an 20 two hundred pounds of gi giant ant powder exploded at the mouth of the lower tunnel ot of the black bear mice mine near here y esterday with terrible effect four men were imprisoned at the breast of the drift by the lock jock which caved in and were bated the bodies of four other miners have not yet ben found b bat at all hope of finding fi hem them alive has be been on given up the explosion wag as ta terrific tearing dp up earth and caving I 1 iu it the tunnel for a distance of feet at tour four the rescuing party had bad recovered the dead bodies of or four miners 0 mcneill gen general eral manager john to n jene jame assistant isia nager kobert robere blackburn and john barrons barrens miners there are four others missing and it ig is feared their bodies were blown to atoms jenee ie Is a brother ol 01 one of the its proprietors end mr air B backburn ack buin was as secretary of the central miners bli union at burke juat jua bow tho the explosion cannot be ascertained bat but it ie Is supposed that a lighted candle cr fire from rom a pipe was dropped into the box arn powder or fuse by some one passing four owes of sticks each exploded almost simultaneously the black bear mino is a located half hall way wallace dij and ud burke on what ie Is known aa as can cannoa von creek near the town of gem tho the bodies of the men recovered were found at a distance of leet lost from the mouth of the tunnel |
