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Show TH!RTY-ONE MEET DEATH IN M 9 WORKMEN TRAPPED IN MINE CONSIDERED THE SAFEST IN STATE OF WASHINGTON. Fire Follows Explosion and Many of Victims Are Burned to Death, Rescuers Being Unable to Reach Them on Account of Heat. Seattle. Wash. As the result of an explosion of coal dust in the Northwestern North-western Improvement company's coal mine at Ravendale. thirty-five miles i from here, on Tuesday, . thirty-one men were killed. The timbers in the mine are still burning. The bodies of three men were recovered re-covered and three Injured were brought safely to the surface, where they were resuscitated by the use of pulmotors. The body of P. J. Kane, foreman of the third level, 1.100 below the surface, sur-face, where the explosion occurred, was found sealed in the chair before bis desk just within the entrance to t.ly third level. He had beenburned to death. The rescuers were unable to remove his body because of the intense in-tense heat -in the level, which was on fire. Trained rescue men rushed to the mine from Seattle and from Roslyn and Gleelum were able, by wearing oxygen helmets, to penetrate far enough into the mine to see the bodies of the entombed men lying in the mine, but could not get to them because be-cause of the wreckage and the heat. From the time the explosion occurred oc-curred until late at night, scores of women and children who had relatives In, the mine crowded silently around he blackened shaft, awaiting word from those laboring within to reach the entombed men. Even after word was passed around that all were giv-en giv-en up for lost, the women wai'.ed, hoping hop-ing that the next trip of the cage would bring up the bodies of their loved ones. The cause of the explosion is unknown. un-known. The mine was well equipped with safety appliances and was considered con-sidered one of the safest in the state. |
