Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-11
Turtle Mountain
Disaster Caused
By Gas Explosion

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letin cable news:
Ihls mas been day OF horror ana
terror "a the niue mining town OF
Frank, in southwestern Alberta. Az
4:2O O'CLOCK THIS morning an explosion
oil gas IN the FRANK coliiery burst out
the sue OF luftle mountain ana nun
dreds and hundreds OF tons OF rock
crashed down upon the mining camp
on the mountain side' bringing instant
death to sleeping men'women ana chll'
dren. and shattering the houses over
their heads, crushing the lie out OF all
VINO we're not under cover ana ping
broken rock yards deep about the en-
trance or the mine. Inc ilst Oh dea'
at last reports amounted 10 nity-six.
Chaos relgned' In 'he CONFUSION none
knew what mad caused the catastrophe
many thinking II was an earthquake OF
q volcano, while terror-stricken men
ran miner ana thither III irantlc ei-
lort 10 90 they knew not what NO Ger
tain knowledge could be sained VINO
were Killed ana VINO were only not 10
ue lound at the moment.
linen 10 thls niue community,
amazed Dy the sudden Calamity ana
hunhOeu by the many deaths III lS
householus new terror presented IL
sell.
Inc oId Man river winch noWs
through the center OIL the town, dam
nieu up win laileh rock 10 height h
nearly ioo ieet' threatened 10 over
"heim 'he shattered Nillase ana sweep
away every 'lsuse OF IT, for miieS up
lS couise 'he WATERS vi Tue river were
pi'i"s up, anu uo"n upoh 'l's iin-
P'n'p'" ""H' '"e o"'s Pio,es'''h t''
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tho dryoII,ng h,usos In tbo ,oun n,
ErorL ,,oro domoI,sbod hy tho ,orIin.
roll come q, tho documents n, ,hosa
boueoo oscorod doo,b I'M, ron, o,horo
wore Instantly LiIIed
| As ono rho main supports og the
tou,r or Eranl, 10 tho minee potrrolIv
tho major nortion or tho nonuIatIon
raIt opvietv for tbair Relatives and
rriepde IN tho mines inside NJ Ave-
uiuutes rrom tho srst tburderous
sbocl, aud hororo boIr -, Tho tow rooI.
i,od wnot bod bonnaned a email rorce
NJ mon had startod IN tho reIief or tho
niroro doerito tho groot risL thoy ron
of no,ng huriod undor tho rocLs which
,yero etiiI being rroc,n,toted from the
LOFTY mountain ton Tho voIrnteer re.
IIief sorco uos unable IN oot Immediate.
IA. 10 ,bo r,iro I'm, r,oroood IN 90,
near enou,b IN determine that not a
man who was oround tho worlings
had esconed deotb MANY had heep
rearr,uv mapgled
The disaster was mercifuI IN those
men who w.re omnIoved ahove ground
ir that they must have been killed in.
stantIy Most of the men imprisoned
lin the mine whose death at first seem.
ed certain. got out alive late this after.
noon. There were seventeen men in
the mine. Two died of suffocation. hut
the otter fifteen worked their way out
The rescuing party above ground de-
spaired of saving the entombed min.
ers. for the entrance was blocked by
Immense niles of broken rocks. The
miners within. however. found AN exit