The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-05
HORRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Three White Men and TWENTY-FIVE
Cinnamon Killed Outright.
One White Man and Twenty seven
Cinnamon Wounded,
Several of Whom VIII Die.
Almy, Wyoming, the Scene Of the
Catastrophe

A rumOr was Oh the street OF
Friday, but was not general, that d
terrible mine explosion had taken
place near Evanston, and thai a
number of persons had been killed
The report, upon inquiry, proved to
be only too true. In the afternoon
an Associated Press dispatch came
TO this city, which is given below,
detailing some of the circumstances,
but not being sufficiently explicit. a
special telegram was sent for TO our
correspondent at Evanston, when
the following full particulars were
received:
SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
Evanston, Wyo, A terrific ex-
ploslon occurred at Mine, No. ,, at
Amy, at 9.l5 last evening. killing
three white men, namely. Josiah
Crosbie, John Barton and Robert
Gillespie, and badly wounding Chds.
Beverage. These were all the white
men that were in the mine. There
were tifty-One Cinnamon at work in
the mine, twenty-four of whom were
killed outright and tWenty-seyen
wounded, more or less severely, six
or seven of whom viii probably die
from the effects of their wounds.
The explosion was caused by thel
gas in some abandoned chambers
lgniting. The bodies were all re-
covered Today. Josiah Crosbie
leaves a wife and five OF six small
children, and John Barton leaves a
wife and three children. The mine
Is owned and was being worked by
the Central Pacific Railway Com
pany. The mine itself is not dam
aged and can be worked again as
soon as the buildings and MACHINERY
can be reconstructed. The build
lngs az the mouth of the mine were
blown to pieces and the debris
burned. AS soon as the explosion
occurred, Superintendent Dodd-
ridge, of the Union Pacific road.
out an engine, and taking
about thirty citizens from here and
several prominent railroad men.
vent to the scene of the disaster.
The scene in the vicinity of the
nine during the night and to-day
las been most CHASTITY.
PRESS DISPATCH.
Cheyenne, Am explosion oc-
'urred last night in coal mine at
Almy, near Evanston, Wyoming, on
he line of Union Pacific road.
while the night shift was at work.
fifty Cinnamon and five whites
we're at work. Two whites were
brought out crippled and fifteen
lhInamen, through the Yentilating
mart, all more or less injured. 1t is
that thirty-iYe Cinnamon!
nd two whites in the mine are all
cad, as the mine is on fire. The
me Is owned by the Central
acllic road and is worked to its
Ill capacity. The accident will n
luse suspension of work for a Y
ear. !
The following dispatch was re- ?
aived at 1 o'clock this morning: i
Owing to the excitement at A Inv o
IS impossible TO obtain full mar G.
ciIlars of the disaster. 1t is now a
bought there are more men in the Il
line than at first reported. A faint a
ope IS held out that most of fine D
len III the mine have fled to a nor ii
on not on fire. The flames inter e
7nIng, prevent rescuers from d
aching them. The scene at the b
outh of the shaft, tonight. is de- Il
ribbed as pitiful. The two fami- a
IS of white men, who are v
Ill IN tie mine, are frantic: t
hile Cinnamon throng about. wall, Il
g piteously for their lost friends n
Id relatives. Most of the popuIa- p
on of Evanston is on the ground Ii
amp fires are scattered about to n
We light to the workers, which lend "
weird effect to the scene. The ii
lners from surrounding pits are b
orking hard. Business in the com G
unity for twenty miles about is 7
-tirely suspended. L