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Show EXPLOSION TRAPS WYOAAINGMINERS MEN ENGAGED IN REPAIR WORK ARE ENTOMBED BY EXPLOSION; EXPLO-SION; MAY BE DEAD Help is Rushed From Denver and Omaha to Kemmerer; Smoke Makes Rescue Work Hazardous Kemmerer, Wye, Fifty-five men engaged in repair work in mine No. 6 of the Kemmemer Coal company at Sublet, Wyo., seven miles north of here were entombed, by an explosion at 11:45 o"cloek September sixteenth. The mine ordinarily employes- 20C men. The men entered the mine shortly before 8 o'clock to put in some additional addi-tional timber and brattice work. Reports to the company's office here that there had been but ont blast within the mine. So great was the force of the explosion however, how-ever, that the portal of the mine was caved in and at 1:30 o'clock rescue crews were unable to penetrate the property. Smoke still was pouring from the mine at this time in great volume. Sublet is a small postoffice station sta-tion and mining community seven miles north of here. Eescue crews, have been formed at mines in the vicinity and were rushed to the scene of the explosion. Company officials, offi-cials, when informed of the explosion explo-sion and the fact that smoke was issuing is-suing from the mine an hour and a half after the blast, expresed the fear that all of the entombed miners min-ers had bee nkilled. Since that time several men have been taken out alive, and the death list will not run as high as was at first expected. The last serious mine disaster in the Kemmerer district occurred August Au-gust 14, 1923, at Frontier, where seventy-eight men were killed and sixteen were removed alive following an explosion in the workings of the mine. The Frontier mine also was owned and operated by the Kemmerer Kemmer-er Coal company. |