Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-22
HORRIBLE DEATH RECORD. Fifty Widows and Two Hundred
 and Fifty Orphans.
RESULT OF AN EXPLOSION
In a Rocky Mountain Coal Mine-Many Are Killed
 on the Outside.

oit ttI0 Odtoio0s
 EVANSTON, Wyo., March 2i.--An ex- plosiou occurred at D. m. yesterday in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron com pany's mine No. 5, at Red Canon. Up to noon today fifty-nIne deaths were known to have resulted. Those killed on the out- side by flying timbers were;
 LIST OF DEAD.
 JAMES B. BRUCE, foreman.
 o. MALTBY, superintendent of motive power.
 W. E. COX, carpenter.
 WILLIAM SELLERS. JR.
 JAMES w. CLARK.
 All of these were married.
 JERRY WFORD, single.
 The following have been brought out:
 WILLARD LAME.
 JAMES LAMB.
 FRED MORGAN.
 All Of these were married.
 s. CLAY.
 ". H. GRIEVES, single.
 DEAD OR ENToMBED IN pHE MINE.
 The 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:
 William Morris, John T. Clark, James T. Clark, William Langdeu, ST., David Lloyd, John T. Martin, George Critchler, John Ihebey, John Lester, William Wag- staff, Charles s. Clark, James Hyden, Matt Silta, Waiter Miller, Samuel Hutchinson, Thomas Booth, Ben Coles, Samuel Bates, Thomas Hutchinson, John Dexter, Henry Burton, Samuel Halsey. Isaac John son. Jshn ehn,,s,. La%s Angel 1ssn ps.sg Der- George Hadley, Matt Johnson, H. A. Hy- bon, William Pope, John Wilkes, Charles Kasols, Gus Kasoa, Aaron Butt, William Weedop, James Hutchinson, William Sellers, ST., Hugh Sloan, Henry Sathren, Clark, William Graham, Marshal Lang den, John Morris, David w. Lowey, George Hydes and John G. Locke.
 There are fifty widows and fully 250 or phan children in the camp today as the re- suit of the disaster. 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 today.
 The interior of the mine is badly wrecked-caved in in many places and full of foul air. All the buildings at the mouth of inc mine we're wrecked. The entrance 10 the mine is by vertical passage into tue aide of hill, not perpendicular shaft, and the workings are very extensive. No ex- plantation of the disaster has as yet been discovered.
 osi SEEKING THE BODIES.
 The work of recovering fhe bodies goes steadily on night and day, rushed forward 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 to brave the gas, fire damp and cruI6bliDg walls were overcome and had to be rescued by others.
 The terrific force of the explosion in find. ing vent at the mouth of the slope blew the I ilu lhnra hQd hn nf the slope and over the passage way leading out of the tipple clear into space, moving down the tops of the power house, tippe shed and other buildings at the mouth of the slope more effsctually 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 day's work, was driving over the slope near it's mouth, on the public highway, at the moment of the explosion. He and the horse and buggy were thrown almost per- pendicularly Tn the air fully 20 feet and all fell in a heap into the mouth of the slope, where the buggy was demolished. The boy was picked up unhurt, and the horse au hour later was rescued not much hurt apparently, although badly singed and stunned.
 The shock of the explosion was felt for miles away.
 The Rocky Mountain company, generally \ hss two mines, Nos. and 6, with one mile face, making twotquare mines with 150 feet pillarg separating them. This leaves No. 6 6unharmed5but deprives the company of one- half of it's capacity.
 This is the third disastrous explosion in this vicinity. In 1881 No. 2 mine, Rocky Mountain, exploited, killing thirty-six Chinese and four white men. In the spring of 1886, in the Union Pacific mine No. 4, thirty-si men were killed. ] Newell Beaman, the manager, arrived from Salt Lake tonight and hastened to the mine.-
 D The slope penetrates the earth at an angle of about 30 degrees, and the full force of the explosion found vent at it's mouth, blowing the heaviest timbers into splinters and through the air like chain shot from a mortar. Pieces of boards and scantling cut their way like bullets through the roofing and the rafters of the power house and everything in their way. SCENES ABOUT THE MINES. The scene about the mine all last night and today was heart-sickening. The air is filled with the agonizing screams of fifty widows and 2o0 orphans as they gathered about and saw the distorted features and man. gled remains of fathers or husbands, sons or brothers, or realized at last that rescued alive from the mine's cruel depths. Help and succor have been tendered from all sources.
 The. mules, that were in the mine were killed, as were the men evidently, by the force of the coucussion, and they are being removed as fast as they can be reached.
 GREAT PERIL TO sEARCHERs. The explosion blew out or loosened all the tim bering and supports and cracked terior of the mine so that search for the dead is attended with great peril. The