Show SMUGGLER FIRE miners driven out of the workings fifty miles of drifts and levels given over to fire and gas miners hopeful of overcoming the fire denver colo no 16 A to the times from aeden colo the situation here grows hourly more al armine and the beat ott Smug ler alre ia soon reached reabon to believe that the entire district have to be temporarily abandoned today every property on smuggler mountain had to be abandoned on account of the aae some narrow escapee ere reported from the tunnel about 10 one 0 the mules that hauls the ore trains fell juat as it reached open air overcome by gas the driver found unconscious in the bottom of the car engineer irwin on the part becent was brought out insensible and several other men were found wholly or partially unconscious and brought out the exact number ot men driven out this morning is estimated at anis makes a total ol 01 about now thrown out of work by the gas between forty and fifty miles of workings have been on smuggler mountain eight of which are in the Smut gler mine the pas seems to be penetrating through the in the contact to the and is plainly noticeable in the argentum junita workings last night t was thought the bulkheads put in between the burning mine and this property would prevent the latter from being affected but indications this morning are that the cannot be stopped in this manner some are inclined to the belief that the gas in the argentum junita is that which found its way into the mollie gibson sunday morning before the bulkheads were put in it this is the correct theory no permanent evil results will follow the mollie gibson people are doing but little more than running their pumps and watching the situation gas does not to penetrating this property to any alarming degree and the hope is abat it is the lead slope of the smuggler which is worked through the smuggler tunnel had to be abandoned this morning after two trips with the mule train tin s virtually u the closing down ol 01 the smuggler mill within a day or manager II allett was seen as be stepped from the free silver cage this morning he had just come up from an examination of the firo situation he silted that the men were making most satisfactory progress toward reaching the fire but that water could not be got onit before 4 or b we have recovered the eighth and seventh bevele he eaid we have a eleam air and water line to the crib on the seventh a few feet above the level of the fire the eighth has been bulk beaded also the seventh and the las and smoke are finding vent through the fifth and sixth the relief pumps on the fifth have not been recovered but the danger to the gas going down and driving out our on the ninth is much lees than yesterday we will next force air in the sixth and drive the gas out of the fifth nd up the shaft this will enable us to know bow to tackle the seat of the trouble the pumps are lifting 2500 gallons 0 water to the filth and ISCO callona to alie surface at the fifth vc are taking out gallons per minute and running it down over the aril to prevent the from spreading 1 think we now have the fire connner 1 that particular slope we will cot through the crib this afternoon and hope to announce some satisfactory re salts a few hours after this is ened the eleam aeed in fighting the firo 18 driven the gas into the water and a larre portion of it ie beine carried to the surface in abie way the water from the pumps under the engine house so strong are the fumes rising from this water that the engineer eug ineer was completely overcome A a whole the situation is more serious than yesterday the ore is still gailing headway and the gag g still |