Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-22
SIXTY MEN KILLED.
Possibly EoTe Miners Lose Their
Lives.
FIFTY WIVES MADE WIDOWS
Fully Two Hundred and Fifty Chill
dren Rendered Fathcriess-Expfo-
sion In n Nine nj Red Canon, Wyo.
All Buildings Wrecked.

EVANSTON. wYO.. March A.-An ez-
plosion occurred at T.. NJ. yesterday In
the Rocky Mountain Coal ard Iron Com
pany's mine No. 5. at Red Canon. 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. +.
Cox. head carpenter: william II. Sellers
Jr., James w. Clark, and Jerry Craw-
ford. single.
The following have been brought out:
-. willard. James Lamb. and Fred
Morgan. married. and Saint Clay, and
w. II. Greves. single.
a large force Of men Is now at work
trying 10 recover the bodies OF the fol-
lowing men. ali married. known 70 have
been in the mine at the time Of the cX-
plosion: William Morris. John r. Clark.
James i. Clark, william Langden, ST.,
David Lloyd. John 4. Martin. George
Critchler, John Thebey, Jonn Lester. Wiz
Ham Wagstan. Charles s Clark. James
Ilyden, Matt Silta, Walter Miller. samuel
Hutchinson, Thomas Booth. Ben Coles,
'hHlHTi Iphl'Hg luDIlds fiulcHiNzOl' JOiAh
Dexter Henry Burton, Samuel Halsey,
Isaac Johnson. John Lamar. Angel Der
mOdy. Baphst Julian. John Fearn, George
Harley, Mutt Johnson. II. A. Hydon,
William Pope, John wilkes. Charles IA
sOla, Gus KasOa, Ron Butt, william
Weedop James Hutchinson. William
Sellers. Sr.. Hugh Sloan. and Henry
Sathrcn, ana the following unmarried
men' Albert Clark, William Graham,
Marshall Langden. John Morris David
LOwey, George Hydes and )hn -. Locke.
There are nifty widows and fully 20
orphan children In the camp to-day a.
the result Of the disaster There is no
fire in the mine. and che work OF re-
covering the dead bodies Is proceeding as
rapidly as possible. but viii probably not
be completed to-day. The interior Of the
mine is badly wrecked. 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 yertical passage into the side
of 81 hill, not a perpendicular shaft, and
the workings are very extensive. No
explanation Of the disaster has yet been
discovered.
WORK OF RESCUE.
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 venturyd 10 brave the gas,
firc-damp, and crumbling walls were over
come and had 30 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 the
mouth Of the sOpe. and over the pas
al .. ~
into space. moving down the tops Of the
power-house. tipple-shed, AMI other build
ings at the mouth of the slope more ef-
fectually than chain Shot would have
done.
\ little boy. who had come TO the mine
with 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 explosion.
He and the horse and buggy were thrown
almost rpendicularly 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 ana the horse, an
no -r later, was reseued.--nof much tn
worse although badly singcd and stunned.
SHOCK FELT FOR MILES.
The shock Of the explosion was felt for
miles around, and was distinctly heard
AT Evanston, seven miles away.
The Rocky Mountain Company, gener-
ally DESIGNATED as the Central Pacinc
Mines. has two mines. Nos and 3, with
one mile face. making two separate mines
with lj0-fect pillars separating them. This
leaves No. 6 unharmed. but deprives the
company of one half its capacity.
This is the third disastrous explosion
assa..
Rocky Mountain, exploded. killing thirty
six Chinese and four white men. In the
spring Of 1856 the Union Pacific mine, No.
4. exploded. and thirty-six were killed.
Newell Beeman, the manager. arrived
from Salt Lake tonight. and fastened
to the mine.
The slope penetrates the earth at an
angle of 30 degrees. and the fun force
Of the explosion found vent at its mouth.
blowing the heaviest timbers into spliut-
ers ana through the air, like chan-shot
from mortar.
SAD SCENES.
The scene about the mine all last night
and to-day was hclTt-sickcniuS. The air
was filed with the agonzng screams
Of nifty widows and go orphans, az they
gathered about and saw the distorted
features and maneled remains Of father
last that there was no hope OF seeing
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.
The explosion blew out or looseued all
the timhering and supports. and cracked
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
parties advance toward the seventh level,
where ii is though, the ihrty-eight men
who have not been found were gathered
10 await the coming Of the last man
trip of the day. which was to take them
TO the surface.
Sixty men perished in the disaster.
thrty-eight OF whom are still in the
mine. About thirty of the dead belonged
TO the A. J. .. y. NJ. w. and were in
surei for 5000 each.