Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-10-08

GEOGRAPHIC.
EXPLOSION OF CAS-
,,,,, no Bainld 10 a CRISP ID .
~ p,rp,yIIlnIa Coal Nine
,rrlr, WILL rno'A" D ''''
o., Of the Rescued
Miners.
w,,t PROBABLY Dit'

ANN. Pc, oct. 7.-sho'N !,
wliS S,.,ass this afternoon a 'er n'
'raS o.', !, cas- occurred in the Dor
dPl'''. oa,O =, Opernied by the Len, lem
rice @ 1,,., ,,u,pany. which is sl'u, y.
v,l', =, .I sortnsiu part Of the CITY, ~. y,
80, y, .i. sn'T Tn" officials are IslIe.".
% 'S' I almost impossible to gel 40. ,,,y
nd = %'n from the levels where ~. 'ns
l'ioia a.. ~, !, worE. AIS o'clock nv Y
r''.'' n lady burned, were brought
i,tbe ,afiaee. nj, vetsIon OF the
b,l .,on 10 ! reporter as no my y"
o. 2 ,IS s,Iots 5 O'clock the engineer !.
hhoi'y, 49, "a make a survey OF y
s S Of the old seandoneu ..,,on. apJ
I'm A. the Baltimore sec, ~. ,hs
l ls,sh underlie the gfouuus " a.
snien As,,. b,ll club, one mile us
WliAe,s w., ,be main opening OF tno
ian, "g Ts, nsrty which was In charge
mine' ~. PANEL Reese, who 10 M ex'
~, q. mlus gases, consisted OF w. NJ,
49, William Cshill aud h,ewe.,yn
g yvu blanchard and Miller were
Vs ,n..,rJ 10 fnlsh some Work INA,
isl w., ,a.n stated In tho morning.
n.ia..,,sslyr minutes after the party
~ nj. Miller and Blanchar1 INC eA,
ss.lSn occurred. Both Miller anu
p,.s,S,td we're Knocked down by the
,.N. Flylpg ,imbers struck Miller,
wv, ..,...,.s b5th hi. arms. After being
,,duWp, Miller and Blanchard
, .uv. nothing until they we're 70.
,l,'i Al The hospital. Biancharu
,b,,t, enc Of the engineers, or proDa--
NJ, m, ire bO,s, sel firo TO n body OF
~. "a The old wotKing'. and thht ali
siibs tafly must hsve been instantly
siii,s When Blanchard was found
he Va, being ,lowly roasted TO death,
Inc n, had cot fire TO bis clothes aud
,hsyhad been almost burned oil his
h.dy vhsn the Tescuefs came upon
NM. Miller with his broken arms,
could render him no assistance, ani
Bsrehafd was 20 pinned down by
dsbf, that he could make no use Of
biz h,nda
AIs O'clock Moss, Lofty and Muir
phy were brought 10 tho surface.
ibsy, 100, wefs badly burned aud
vsit titea TO the hospital.
Aimidnishl tue Ioscuars had made
y,fy little pfogtesa IN their efforts 10
f,lsh the scene Of the explosion. Fire
dlmp made IL appearances shortly .af'
ul sOelock, and II was necessary TO
% {. miserable braliico work, which
pileesJed very slowly. There 10 a
ifsbs suspicion also that the explosion
eialei heavy fall In the old work
inl, and iha, this will further retnfd
be votK Of the rescuers.
~, now admitted by the mine ofii-
tAi that there lie no hope VI finding
he engineer corps alive. They all
r,ii,h,d In the explosion, anu II they
were mol killed outright they were
luloeaied by the IRE damp. The
sugtfinlsndent Is Of tho opinion that
they vefe killed by the force OF tho
sxPlo'lon. ard their bodies probably
burned ioA crisp.
All tuI eight miners and lsborers
have now been accounted for. Whether
lhs,s eight petlshed with the engineers
VIII not he known until tomorrow.
superintendent Chase thinks, how.
ever, iaai the list Of dead will not
h1nbsi more tbau seven or eight.
The ooaies OF the missing men were
recovered al2:l5 AIN. Ailare deaf.