The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-22
FIFTY~NINE PERSONS KILLED
1 Disastrous Explosion in a Wyoming
Iron and Coal Kline.
NEARLY ALL WERE MARRIED MEN.
<jfty Wives Made Widows and Nearly Three
Hundred Children orphans-List
of the Victims

EVANSTON. NAOMtNG, Match 81
AN explosion occurred at r. NJ. yestcr-
day in the Rocky Mountain Goa and
Iron Company's mine. No. 3. at re can
on. Up 10 noon to-day ffty-nine deaths
were known TO have resulted. Those
killed on the outside By flying timbers
were: James B. Bruce, foreman; o..
Maltby, superintendent Of motive power;
w. Il. Cox. head carpenter; William IL.
Sellers. Jr., james W. Clark and Jerry
Crawford, single. The following have
been brought out: Willard, James
Lamb. Fred. Morgan, married. and Saint
Clay, and w. II. Grieyes, single.
SOME or THE VICTIMS.
The large force of mcn Is now at work
10 recover the bodies of the following
men. all married, known TO have been in
the mine al the time of the explosion:
William Morris, John r. Clark, James
4. CLARK. William Langdon, Sr. David
Lloyd. John 4. Martin. George Critchler
John Thobcy, John Lester, William Wag-
stan, Charles >. Clark James Hyden
Matt. Sil,a, Walter Miller. Samuel Hutch
inson. Thomas Booth, Ben Coles Samuel
Bates. Thomas Hutchinson, John Dexter.
Henry Burton, Samuel Halsey, Isaac john
son. John Lamar, Angel Dermody, Bap-
list Julian, John Fearn. George Harley,
Matt. Johnson. II. a. Hydon. William
Pope. John Wilkes. Charles KasOla. Gus
kasola, Ron Butt. William Weedop, James
Hutchinson, William Sellers, Sr., Hugh
Sloan, Henry Sothren. and the following
unmarried mem Albert Clark. William
Graham, Marshall Langdon, John Nor
ris, David Lowcy. George Hydes, John
G.. Locke.
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.
hundred and fifty orphan children in the
camp to-day as the result Of the disas-
ter. There is no fire in the mine. and
the work of recovering the dead bodies
Is proceeding as rapidly as possible but
Will probably not be completed to-day.
The interior Of the mine is badly wreck
ed. caved in in many places, and fun of
foul air.
All the buildings at the mouth Of the
mine were wrecked. The entrance TO the
mine Is by vertical passage intoNhe side
Of a HILL not a perpendicular shaft, and
the workings are very extensive. No
explanation Of the disaster has yet been
discovered.
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 attended
with grave peril, and the first group of
miners who ventured 10 brave the gas.
fire damp and crumbling walls, were
overcome, and had to be rescued by
others. The terrific force of the explosion
in finding vent at the mouth of the slope
blew the heavily timbered shed over tho
mouth Of the slope and over the passage
way leading out % tipple. clcIr into
space. moving down the tops of the
power-hOuse. tpple shed and other
buildings at the mouth of the slope. more
efectually than chain shot could have
done.
4 MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
a little boy who had come TO the mine
with "A horse and buggy to take his
grandfather, Henry Burton, home at the
close Of the days work was driving
over the slope near it's mouth on the
public highway the moment of the ex-
ploson. lie and the horse and buggy
were thrown almost perpeudicularly in
the air fully twenty-five feet and all
fell in heap into the mouth of the slope
where the buggy was demolished. The
boy was picked up unhurt, and the horse.
an hour later. was rescued not much
worse, although badly singed and stun
ned.
The shock of the explosion was felt for |
miles around. and was distinctly heard |
at Evanston, seven miles away. The |
Ito, Ky Mountain Company, generally des- |
ignatcd as the Central Pacinc Mines, has |
two mines. Nos and e. with one mile |
face. making two separate mines, with |
150-feet pillars separating them. This |
leaves No. 6 unframed but deprives the |
company of one-half its capacity. This |
is the third disastrous explosion i'm this |
vicinity In 1881 No. 2 mine, Rocky !
Mountain exploded killing thirty-six Chi |
nese and four white men. In the spring |
of 1856 the Union Pacific mine, No. 4, ex-
ploded. Thrty-six men were killed.
Newell Beeman the manager, arrived |
from salt Lake tonight, and hastened TO
the mine.
The slope penetrates the earth at an
angle of about thirty degrees. and the
fun force of the explosion found ven. at
its mouth. blowing the heaviest timbers
into splintcrs and through the air like
chain-shot from mortar.
HEARrRFNDING SCENES
The scene about the mine all last night
and to-day was heart-sickening. The air
Is filed with the agoniZing screams of
nifty widows and 80 orphans as they
gathered about and saw the distorted fea-
lures and mangled remains OF father or
husband. son or brother or realized at
last that there was no hope TO see their
loved ones rescued alive from the mines
cruel depths Help and succor have been
rendered from all sources The mules
that were in the mine were killed as
were the men.
DANGEROUS RESCUE WORK.
The explosion blew out and loosened all
the timberng and supports and crack
ed and shattered the walls and roof of
the interior OF the mine so that the
search for the dead is attended with
great peril.
The work OF recovering. the dead be-
comes more difficult as the working par
ties advance toward the seventh level.
where IL Is thought the thirty-elght men
who have not been found, were gathered
TO await the coming OF the last main
trip Of the day. which was TO take them
10 the surface.
At least fifiy-nine men perished In the
disaster. thlrty-eight OF whom are still
In the mine. About thirty OF the dead
belonged 10 the A. /. O. T. and w, and |
were insured for S20O0 each.