The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-29
TWENTY DEAD
BELOW GROUND
At HANNA, WYO.
Gas Explosion in Mine No. | of
Union Pacific Coal
Company.
VICTIMS ALL MARRIED
AND LEAVE FAMILIES
SAME MINE SCENE OF HORROR
OF 1908, WHEN 1863 LIVES
WERE SNUFFEO OUT.

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{. Hanna, Wyo., March 2s.-While q,
8 rescue party of fifty miners we're %
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Q Warburton, James Knox, Gus %
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q rescuers. and il is feared all are .
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g towns can reach the entOmbed .,
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Hanna, WyO.. March 2S.-This camp
was visited by another catastrophe this
afternoon, and the lives Of twenty men
were snuffed out by an explosion Of
gas i'm mine No. 1 of the Union Pacific
Coal company. a fire had been raging
below the tenth level since last Satur-
day. and the force of 200 miners had
been laid off for the day, fearing an ac-
cident might occur. superintendent
Alex. Briggs and Foreman Joseph Bur-
ton. AT Dodds and James Knox Of
mines Nos. l. , and 8, with a crew Of
sixteen or seventeen men. all expert
enced miners, with gas men and FIRE
fighters, went down into the workings
early this morning to fight the con-
flasratiOn, which was rapidly eating its
way through the workings. At I
clock several gas men and fire bosses
changed watches and the fire-fghteIs
rested and lunched. At , O'Clock Charles
Harris, a gas man, came out. being re-
lieved by P. A. Boyd. Harris was the
last man to leave the coIliery.
Town Startled by Roar.
At 3 o'clock the men above the work.
ings, the idle miners in their homes and
about town, were startled by an awful
roar. followed by a heavy boom AMI
the shaking of the earth and trembling
of the buildings. All knew what had
happened, and there was q rush to the
mine. Both entries had caved in and
mine timbers had been blown great dis
tances about the outside workings Re
lief parties went to work, but they
might as well take their time, for the
miners are dead and probably their
bodies cannot be reached for many
days.
The Known Dead.
superintendent Alexander Briggs.
Mine Foreman Joseph Burton.
James Knox.
ALI. DOdds.
GINS Raulpv
p. a. Boyd, cOlored.
John Evans.
Robert Heron.
Harry Lyons.
John RimmeT.
William Pascoe.
Robert WarbuTtOn.
Benjamin Perry
Thomas Flint, all Americans.
Cappa Lahti.
Emil Selfvast
John Yaknen. Finlanders
Three unknowns.
All were married and leave widows
with large families.
Help From Nearby Towns.
Special trains are coming from the
neishbOring mining towns Of Rock
Springs, Amy. Cumberland and KEN
merer. with gangs of workmen. miners
and experienced fire-fighters, to assist
in the work Of rescuing. On June 80,
1S03 an explosion of gas snuffed out
the lives of i69 miners i'm this same
min e.
A few bodies were removed at the
time, but the majority were not recov-
cred for six months.