The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-23
MINERS PERISH.
An Explosion In a Wyoming COL
iery Kills Many.
NJ IL Estimated That Fifty Are Dead
Dynamite Explodes Ian Rhenish frus-
sIa. killing ty-Five-Fatai
Fire la New York.

EVANSTON, WyO., March 2l.-At 5:45
o'clock Wednesday evening an explo-
sion of gas took place in the Rocky
Mountain Coal ~ Iron company's
mine No. 8 at Red Canyon, sew
eral miles from here. There were
from twenty-five TO fifty men in the
mine, and il Is thought that they
are certainly dead. Fifteen, however,
are known 20 have been killed by
flying timbers, including James Ii.
Bruce, mine foreman and cx-county
commissioner OF Uintah county.
Eight men have been brought
out OF the mine so burned as
TO be past Identification, with
the exception of one, John Lamb. All
hope of rescuing anybody alive has
been given up. The death roll now
numbers fifteen. superintendent
Maltby died shortly after he was taken
out OF the mine, as did Jerry Crawford.
IL was thought that Andrew Mason
cannot live. About $50 men are EN-
ployed in the mine, but most OF them
had gone ont. The covering OF the
slope and buildings at the mouth were
blown TO atoms. The mine was con-
sidered one of the safest in the state.
COLOGNE, March 2l.-A report is in
circulation here 10 the effect that a
terrible explosion of dynamite has
taken place at Oberwesel on the Rhine.
Twenty-Five persons are said TO have
been killed. two ships are reported to
have been destroyed and many homes
are announced 10 have been wrecked
by the explosion. Oberwesel is town
of Rhenish Prussia. about 10 miles
from Coblentz. It's population is esti-
mated 90 be about $500.
Latest reports from the vicinity OF
the accident say that church In the
village OF Elten was shattered by the
explosion and fifty houses collapsed
i'm Emmerich and Keeken. 1t Is now
said that twenty-five persons were
killed.
AMSTERDAM, March 2l.-A local pa
per publishes a dispatch saying that
the disaster reported from Cologne was
the result Of the explosion of the cargo
of 10000 pounds OF dynamite on board
the ship Elizabeth at Salworth, in the
district of Dusseldorf, Tuesday even
ing.
According 10 this dispatch thirteen
persons were killed and FIVE injured
and one went insane. The scene after
the explosion is described as being one
Of terrible destruction
The inhabitants of Lobith, Cleve,
Salworth, Tolkamer SpelS and half a
dozen near by places felt two violent
shocks and supposed that there was an
earthquakes Three bodies have been
recovered. A girl was found dying in
a pile OF ruins. She fingered three
hours in agony
NEW YORK, March 2i.-Two men lost
their lives in a fire which broke out at
GAS o'clock Wednesday morning in the
four-story fiat building l6s West TWEEN
ty-ffth street The dead: John Kurtz,
Tony Ketchum.
Kurtz was proprietor OF the Chimney
Corner saloon, Sixth avenue and Twen-
ty-sixth street, and was burned to
death while trying to save the meme
Dcrs Of his family.
Ketchum was an insurance agent.
and jumped from the third-story win
dow lie was 50 badly injured that he
died an hour later Five others who
jumped escaped without serious in
iuries
Miss X. Scamp was severely burned
about the neck and shoulder by at
tempting 20 descend by ladder from
the third story She fell, but was
caught in net and escaped without
serious injury. When the fire was ex-
tinguished the dead body Of Kurtz was
found in the hall. The loss by the fire
is about $4,000
81. JOINS, n. f., March 21.-One OF
the six boilers in s. H. King & Sons
lumber mill AZ Kingsville, outside of
Fairville, exploded Wednesday morn
ing and one man was killed and four
injured. The nam OF the dead man is
Wellington smith, 20 years old, who
was wheeling sawdust TO the furnace
/ when the boiler struck him. The mill
was badly damaged. The explosion
4 was caused by the water being too low.
GREENsBURG. Pa, March 2l.-Joscph
Keighler and John Mosler were killed
10y fall OF slate in Tricks Standard
mines Wednesday. An unknown man
was killed by "a train near Jacobs
Creek, and at Whitney little daugh.
ter OF Henry Johns was probably fatal
Il ly scalded by upsetting a kettle OF
/ boiling winter upOn herself