The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-04-25
PLAYED WITH FIRE.
Reckless Hardness in Giving a
Fire Alarm.
NEARLY FORTY MEN SACRIFICED,


Thirty OF Whom Are Buried in Fiery
Sepulchre-Threc Explosions In Sue
cession = Terrible Scene at the Pit
Mouth-News from the Flooded Dis
tricts-Bayou Sara Calls for Heip-Des-
titution and Death Abroad-Frightful
Accident at N Bull Fight.
CHEYENNE, Wy. T., April % Thirty
men are imprisoned in the Rock Springs
coal mine, No A, which is on fire, and it is
almost certain that all are dead The mine,
which is the largest in the far west, was dis
covered to be on fire at o'clock yesterday
morning. The flames were kept under con-
troll for time but about o the fire COM
menced to spread rapidly, and the men were
ordered to the surface. They had been
nervous for some time, and nutiny was
threatened an hour before the general alarm
was sounded They made mad rush for
the surface
The Warning Too Long Delayed.
The leaders, whose pallid features height
ened the effect of the dust gathered on their
faces, were just issuing from the shafts
mouth, when fearful explosion, heard for
miles around, made the earth CULVER and
was followed by volume of smoke which
rushed out of the shaft The terrible fear
that hundreds of the men still below the
surface had met death pressed upon all and
reused the 5000 people in the camp, who
Bwarmed to the entrance of the mine. The
agonizing cries of frightened women and
children added to the terror.
Rescuers Bfavely Face Death.
There were calls for volunteers FOR res
cuing party, and score of brave men re-
sponded. Their disappearance was the sig
nal for another explosion, louder and more
forceful than the first Seven OF the search
ers were injured one past recovery. The
camp seemed panic-stricken, but the appeals
and demands of the women for help to save
their husbands and sons reused the men to
action. A doz"n men descended this time
end returned in a few minutes with six in
sensible Cinnamon, and said that ten others
OF the ra 70 had been seen lying PROSTATE.
Two of the rescued Cinnamon died in a few
minutes. Three explosions followed in rapid
SUCCESSION, each seeming more terrible than
the preceding one.
Further Succor Impossible.
Smoke issued in full volume from all the
entrances, and any further attempts to save
the men imprisoned below was abandoned.
There are still at least thirty men in the
mine, mostly Chinese. That these are al
most certainly dead there is little doubt, but
even were they living their fate is sealed,
for there is no possibility of another descent
being made until the fire is under control.
OF the men injured three have already ex-
pired, and it is thought that four more cam
not survive. All the entrances have been
closed, and every effort is being made to
keep the fire within certain bounds, but it
cannot be subdued within three months
The mine has an underground area of nine
miles, capacity of 800 cars day, and the
prestige of producing the best fuel mined in
the west. 1t is the property of the Union
Pacific railway and valued at 81 100000
Among the fifteen who were badly injured
by the explosion or in the work of rescue
are: David Thomas and Ed Evans, foremen
of the other mines; Frank Hodges AM Alex.
Diatt, the former q boss and the latter a
miner.