, 1908-03-30
HANNAH DEATH-LIST
REACHES FIFTY NINE
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brought the gas to the burning entry
in condensed and compressed 1orm'
That any of the men or animais III
the mine escaped with their hveS
seems an utter impossibility. There
we're twenty horses N seven mules
employed on the different levels, maui
ing the loaded car to the SLOPE.
where it was drawn to h surface by
the cable driven by the engines at
each end of the slope. These
in summer time are brought TO inc
surface on Saturdays and left out IN
til Monday, but in winter time, when
there is no grazing in the open, they
are left in the mine week after week
Victims of First Explosion.
The first explosion occurred when
there were not more than a score OF
men in the mines, the exact numbe
believed to be eighteen. These were
In charge of Superintendent Briggs
The list follows:
Alex Briggs, mine superintendent;
wife. three sons and three daughters.
Emil Silfast, Finn, timberman's
helper.
Alex Tenant, driver; body recov-
cred.
p. A. Boyd, colored. pumper, two
SONS.
Tony Dodds, boss driver in mine
No. 2.
Ta,, Mint macon
Ben Parry, gas watch; body recoy-
cred.
Robert Warburton, boss driver; body
recovered; wife and seven children.
George Rannie, colored, rope run
ner.
Pete Munson, pipeman; body recov-
cred; wife.
Robert Horn, gas watch, from Cam
bria.
Matt Huhtula, "McGinty" man, Finn;
body recovered.
Jack Renner, gas watch.
Joseph Burton, miner.
J. B. Evans, gas watch.
w. H. Pascoe, gas watch No. 2 mine;
wife.
Ildllg hyohy Sdo WoNNht
The Rescuine Party.
When Mr.. Elias called for five vol
unteers forty responded and cast them
selves into the work with a sort OF
frenzy born of fear that their comrades
had been killed and a wild hope that
they had not. The list:
David M. Elias of Rock Springs,
z,,tn zinc incnactnr in OharOa nf the
rescue party.
William Joki, Finn, miner.
John Ikonen, Finn, roller man;
wife.
C. II. Harris, colored, pumpman, who
had left the mine at the end of his
shift and who had returned to relieve
p. A. Boyd at the pump at the lower
depths. 1t is believed he had reached
the pump at just 3 O'Clock, as hat was
the time he should have been there.
Emil Hendrickson, Finn, driver.
j. A. Lynn, Finn, driver.
Abel Pura, Finn, driver.
Charles X. Hughes, miner.
Harry Foster, laborer.
Matt Joki, miner.
James Crookson. driver.
ALI Holiday, inside laborer.
Jim Larson, shot firer.
Albert Riley, driver.
William Johnson, colored, shot firer.
Joe Case, boiler man.
Jim Hoy, miner.
Andy Hoy, miner.
A. Birchall, miner.
Henry Birchall, miner.
Gabe Lott, miner.
Dick Wilson, non-employe at time.
Sam Mccormick, inside aborer.
f. G.. Burton, inside foreman No. ].
Robert Armstrong, Union Pacific
signal a
B. T. Frink, pumpman.
Pete Travce, brakeman No. 2 mine.
James Knox. gas watch; had been
inside foreman Of No. 3 mine.
James Smeaton, shot firer
VIII Barnes, miner.
Jim Tulley, miner.
John Tate, shot firer.
Alfred Dodds, inside foreman of No.
2 mine.
Frank Collins, miner.
August Larkson, miner.
e. Karrika, miner.
Aaron Madden, colored, widower,
shot firer.
James lynn, colored, miner.
T. d. Penn, colored. miner; wife
and two children.
Emil johnson, colored, miner; wife.
Mrs. Johnson lost her brother, A. c.
Carley. in the %rescuing party.
A. C. Carley, colored, miner; wife
and three children.
Many Children Orphaned.
The death list, while over one hun-
dred James below that of June, 1903,
embraces some of the leading citizens
of Hanna, whereas, in the former ex-
plosion there were many single men
and men whose families had not reach
ed Hanna. Most of the men in Satur-
days death list had families in the
village. One of them leaves an aged
mother entirely alone in this country.
1t vas stated repeatedly at Hanna
Sunday that the number of children
orphaned would exceed the number of
those so left by the greater explosion
five years ago.
Ministers or the Scene.
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