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Show MINERS KILLED BY DYNAMITE. Explosion Occurs While Powder is Waiting to be Sent Down. Butte, Mont. Fourteen men were killed at the Granite Mountain mine of the North Butte Mining company Tuesday hy an explosion of 500 pounds of giant powder. Three men were engaged early Tuesday afternoon in lowering powder pow-der to the 2,800-foot level. One car containing about 500 pounds or giant powder was at the collar of the shaft awaiting to be lowered, after which a number of bosses ana miners were to go below. Five of the men were waiting in the "dog house," a small room near the shaft, when suddenly the explosion occurred. John Davey, the only one ot the three at the surface to survive the explosion, ex-plosion, left the car to get a timber 100 feet back from the shaft. He was thrown to the ground by the explosion, explo-sion, but was not ibaaly hurt. The blast swept away the frame structure in which the men were waiting wait-ing at the shaft, together with the air shaft 'beside the steel gallows frame. Two painters were at work on this air shaft at the time of the explosion. Neither was killed, but 'both were injured. in-jured. Many of the bodies were in fragments. |