The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-22
SIXTY PERISH IN A COAL MINE.
AN EXPLOSION SPREADS DEATH IN
A SLOPE IN WYOMING.

MiIes ArOund-The Buildings at
the Mouth of the slope Moved
Down as IL struck by Chain shot
From 8IOrtar-Fifty Women
Made widows and $50 Children
Made Orphans-Thirty of the Men
in the A. o. u. W.
Evanston. Wyo., March Alan explo-
sion occurred at p. m. yesterday in the
Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Company's
mine, No. 5, at Red Canon. Up to noon
to-day 50 deaths We're known to have re-
suited.
Those killed on the outside by flying tim
bers were: James B. Bruce, foreman; o.
Naltby, superintendent of motive power;
W. E. Cox. head carpenter; William Sell
lers, Jr, James W. Clark. all married, and
Jerry Crawford. single.
The following have been brought out:
Willard, James Lamb, Fred Morgan, mar
rled, and S. Clay and w. H. Grieves. sin
gle.
A large force Of men is now at work to
recover the bodies of the following men,
all married. known to have been in the
mine at the time of the explosion: VIII
liam Morris. John T. Clark James T.
Clark. William Langden. Sr., David Lloyd,
John T. Martin, George Critch-
Ter, John Thebey. John Lester.
William Wagstan Charles S.
Clark, James Hyden, Matt silta, Walter
Miller, Samuel Hutchinson, Thomas
Booth, Benjamin Coles Samuel Bates.
Thomas Hutchinson, John Dexter, Henry
Burton, Samuel Halsey, Isaac johnson,
John Lamar, Angel Dermody, Baptiste
Julian, John Fearn, George Harley, Matt
Johnson, H. A. SybOn, William Pope, John
Wilkes, Charles kasola, Gus Kasola,
Aaron Butt, William Weedop, James
Hutchinson. William Sellers, Sr., Hugh
Sloan and Henry Sathren, and the follow
ing unmarried men, Albert Clark, William
Graham. Marshal Langden, John Morris,
David w. Lowey, George Hydes, John G.
Locke
There are fifty widows and fully 25O or
phan children in the camp to-day as
result of the disaster. There is no fire
in the mine and the work of recovering
the dead bodies is proceeding as rapidly
as possible
Theinterior Of the mine is badly wrecked
caved in in many places and full of foul
air. All the buildings at the mouth of the
mine were wrecked. The entrance to the
mine is by vertical passage into the side of
hill. not perpendicular shaft and the
alton of the disaster has as yet been dis
covered.
The work of recovering the bodies goes
steadily on night and day, rushed for
ward by volunteer squads of miners and
other citizens, who relieve each other
from time to time. The work is attend
ed with grave peril. and the first group
of miners who ventured to-day reported
fire damp and crumbling walls, and were
overcome, and had to be rescued by 9TH
ha farr ffa Of 1f,csfer
in finding vent at the mouth of the slope
blew the heavily timbered shed over the
mouth of the slope and over the PASSAGE
way leading out to the tipple, clear into
space moving down the tops of the power
houses tipple shed and other buildings
at the mouth of the slope more effectually
than chain shot could have done.
A little boy who had come to the mine
with horse and buggy to take his grand
father, Henry Burton, home at the close
OF the days work, was driving over the
slope near its mouth, on the public high
way at the moment of the explosion. He
and the horse and buggy were thrown
almost perpendicularly in the air, fully %
feet and all fell in a heap into the mouth
Of the slope where the buggy was demol-
the horse, an hour later, was rescued not
much hurt apparently, although badly
singed and stunned.
The shock of the explosion was felt for
Evanston, seven miles away.
The Rocky Mountain Company, general
! ly designated as the Central Pacific mines,
has two mines, Nos. 5 and 6, with one mile
lace, making two separate mines with $50
feet pillars separating them. This leaves
No. unharmed, but depriVes the company
OF one half its capacity.
This is the third disastrous explosion in
this vicinity. In 1881, No. mine, Rock
mountain, exploded, killing Sc Chinese and
four white men. In the spring of 1886 in
Union Pacific mine No. 4, SO men were
killed.
Newell Beeman, the manager arrived
from Salt Lake tonight and hastened to
the mine.
The slope enters the earth at an angle
OF about 80 degrees and the full force of
The explosion found vent at its mouth,
blowing the heaviest timbers into splin-
iers and through the air like chain shot
irOm a mortar. Pieces of boards and
soantling cut their way like bullets
through the roofing and rafters of the
power house and everything in their way.
The scene about the mine all last night
and to-day was heartrending. The air
was filled with the agonizing screams of
hiiy widows and 250 orphans, as they
gathered about and saw the distorted
FEATURES and mangled remains of father
OF husband, son or brother, or realized at
,ast that there was no hope to see their
Ioyed ones rescued alive from the cruel
mines depths Help and succor have
peen rendered from all sources. The
mules that were in the mine were killed,
as We're the men, evidently by the force
oi the concussion and are removed as
'asi as they can be reached.
Ine explosion blew out or loosened all
we umbering and supports and cracked
sAd shattered the walls and roof of the
Interior Of the mine so that the search
=, 9' the dead is attended with great peril.
4Ae work of recovering the dead bodies
SLOWS more difficult the working par
- advance toward the seventh level,
~aere it is thought the thirty-eight men
~Ao have not been found, were gathered
await the coming of the last man
5lp Of the day, which was to take them to
we surface
few lives were saved because of the
"e OF the explosion. The miners quit
0fk at o'clock and it is customary for
-sn 70 be near the entrance and come
~. Just as the whistle blows A number
aI come out and some had just left the
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