The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-03-22
EIGHTY DEAD MEN
All Hope Of Rescuing Victims
Of the Wyoming Disaster
Abandoned.
ENTOMBED IN LOWER SHAFTS
And 1t Will Be Two or Three
Days Before They Can Be
Reached.


SALT LAKE CITY, u. T., March 81
A special to The Tribune from Red Can.
yon says:
A terrible explosion at Rocky Noun
tain mine No. 5, situated at Red Can
yon, Wyo., is believed to have killed 80
men who are imprisoned in the mine,
in addition to 10 who were in the power
house above ground or near the shaft
openings. The slopes and and en-.
frances to the lower workings are al
blockaded by wreckage and it is thought
at least three days will be required for
rescuing parties to reach the bodies in
the mine.
The horror occurred at 5:15 Wednes.
day afternoon at No. 8 Central Pacific
mine, Red Canyon, five miles north Of
Evanston. The explosion in the mine
shook the whole country around,
wrecked the power plant, a fan house
and several other buildings, ~entailine
heavy loss, but the death roll far over
shadows other considerations.
AuGUO AAAU~>y
Edwin Cox, the outside carpenter
James Bruce, outside boss, James w,
Clark, William Sellers, Jr., and James
Gernlly, an Austrian, were killed in thu
power house, while O'Maltby, foreman
Jerry Crawford and Andrew Masor
were injured and died soon afterward
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 a short distance
down, but as this is written there il
around the mine a great throng of PEG
pie anxiously inquiring regarding
friends known to be in the mine, ant
all hope Of any of them being alive il
gone.
No Hope for Any.
No one, after seeing the CHASTITY spec
tacle presented by the two bodie
brought out Of the slope, could hav
hopes Of any in the mine being alive
These bodies were burned and black
ened, with garments torn to shreds
making it almost impossible to identif,
them. How many were in the mine q
the time Of the explosion will take tim
to tell, but the best information obtain
| able now places the number at over 80
All those known to be dead leave larg
families.
Immediately the work of rescue be
gan. The blacksmith shop vas turne
into q dead house, with three bodie
lying disfigured, n with it's hea
blown of, the others less mangled
Brave men had tried to descend some G
the air and escape slopes without sue
cess, and it was not until three hour
after the explosion that q voluntee
party entered the main entrance to tn
slope, and soon afterwards raturne
with two bodies. They reported tina
caves stopped the further progress dow,
the slope.
Then a party went down to shove
out the caves, after which the search
ing party again entered and work il
that line in now going on.
VIII Take Several Days.
This slope being down 1900 feet witt
nine levels, each n and q half mile
long, will, probably require several day
to reach all parts Of the mine. A fey
lives were saved because Of the time O
the explosion. The miners quit wor,
at 6 o'clock and it is customary for then
| to be near the entrance and come on
Just as the whistle blows. A numbe
of men had come ont and some had jus
left the entrance to the mine slope
away from the working tunnel whel
the explosion occurred. thus escapini
death. Zeke Baker and father an
brother came out five minutes befor
the explosion. Zeke was hit by tn
timber which killed the Crawford boy
but he was not much hurt. job
Hanna, carpenter, had just come on
and was talking to Cox and Bruce
when they were killed, he being burne
slightly.
The explosion is supposed to hav
come from a blast setting fire to dus,
causing dust explosion, since the min
was supposed to be free from gas, bein
well ventilated.
This is the third disastrous explosion
in this vicinity. In 1881 No. Q mine
Rocky Mountain, exploded, killing 8
Chinese and four white men. In tn
spring of 1886, Union Pacific Mine NJ
4, killed So men. Newell Beemor
manager, arrived from Salt Lake an
fastened to the mine and is doing a
he can for the injured and bereaved an
to reach those in the mine.
Figure Out Sixty-One.
EVANSTON, Wyo., March 22.-It
now figured out from company lists an
nav rolls that 81 men persisted in th