The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-03-21

SALT LAKE Crry, Utah., March 21.-A
| special to The Tribune from Red Canyon
says: A terrible explosion at Rock Noun
! tain Mine, No. 8, situated at Red Canyon,
Wyo., is believed to have killed so men,
who are imprisoned in the mine, in ad-
dition TO ten who were in the power house
! above ground, or near the shaft of fenc-
ings. The slopes and entrances to lower
workings are all blockaded by wreckage
and it is thought at least three days will
be required for rescue parties to reach
the bodies in the mine.
| The horror occurred at 5:45 last evening
at No. Central Pacific Mine, Red
Canyon, five miles north OF Evanston.
The explosion in the mine shocked the
whole country around, wrecked the power
plant, a fan house and several other build
! ings. Edwin Cox, the outside carpen-
ter; James Bruce, outside boss; James w.
Clark, William Sellers, jr; and James
Connely, an Austrian, were killed in the
power house; while o. Maltby, foreman;
| Jerry Crawford and Andrew Mason were
injured and died soon afterwsrd, the last
three being about the power house at the
time Of the explosion.
A few hours later the dead bodies Of
James Limb and Fred Morgan were
brought from the slope, only short dis
| tance down, but as this is written there
is around the mine a great throng OF
people inquiring anxiously regarding
friends known to be in the mine. All
hope OF any of them being alive is gone.
No one after seeing the CHASTITY spec
tacle presented by the two bodies brought
out of the slope could have any hopes of
any in the mine being alive. These bodies
were burned and blackened with garments
torn to shreds, making it almost impos-
sible to identify them. How many were
in the mine at the time of the, explosion
will take time to tell, but the best infor-
nation obtainable places the number at
over so. Nearly all known to be killed
leave large families.
Immediately after the explosion Super
intcndent Bradbury telephoned to Evans
ton for all the physicians to come on an
extra train. The Tribune correspondent
was on the train, and viewed the
scene of the disaster before darkness
set in. The relief corps, carrying
lanterns, got reedy to descend in hopes
OF rescuing alive some OF the victims. The
blacksmith shop was turned into dead
house, with four bodies lying there, one
disfigured with its head blown off,
the others less mangled. Brave men
had tried to descend some of the air
and escape slopes without success and it
was not until three hours after the explo-
sion that a volunteer party entered the
main entrance to the slopes and soon af-
terward returned with two bodies. They
reported cave ins stopped further progress
down the slope.
Then party went down to clear away
the debris after which the searching party
sgain entered and work in that line is
now going on.
This slope being down 1000 feet, with
nine levels, each one and a half miles
long, 1t will probably require sever al days
to reach all parts OF the mine. A few
lives were saved because of the
time of the explosion. The miners quit
work at 6 o'clock, and il is customary
for them to be near the entrance and come
out just as the whistle blows. A number
OF men had come out and some had
just left the entrance to the mine slope,
away from the working tunnel, when the
explosion occurred, thus escaping death.
Zeke Baker and his father and brother
came out five minutes before the explosion
Zeke Baker was hit by the timber which
killed Crawford Hanna, carpenter,
who had just come out and was talking to
Cox and Bruce when they were killed, he
being burned slightly but it was unoer-
stood the following persons we're in the
mine:
Willard Brown, John Lock, Joseph
Highton, George Hides, John Fearn,
Aaron Butler, John Critchley, f. Sloan,
John Dexter, Charles Clark, Thomas
James and Samuel Hutchinson, George
Hardy, W. NJ. Langdon and son, John
Fcebee, william Weldon, John Martin,
Jr
A weigher was the only person in the
power house not killed, being but
slightly burned; the engineer, who was
blown through the window, il but little
hurt. Around the mine is population OF
about 2oo0 Many families are bereft Of
father or sons.
Avoid ALI diseases of the liver kidnevs and