Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-10
WORKING TO SAVE
EN7OhB|:E:.D|!| MINERS |.I|.Nl 5
put,ino in Of Fans Providing Pure
Air Spread Hope in Stark
vile District.
TO LOCATE MEN SOON
,,.su,r Men Give Encouragement
Believe Fan VIII be Advanced
10000 Feet.

stortyille, Colo, Oct 1o.-IVhen dawn
woke today, it found mine officials,
cate mine inspectors, helmet men and
o,her expert fuel mining men faithfully
wording to reach the two score or more
miners entrapped in the Starkville 1nlhe
nv the explosion of Saturday.
The Starkvile mine has not been
rrortinr a night shift until recently,
,,.bon tho demand for its output became
.o heavy that the day shift could not
meet it. Then a night shift, which
,sna,,v consisted of about 100 men, was
mi 10 work, It is difficult to say Just
hov MANY men were working when The
exn,os;on occurred because they are
allowed to use their own will as to
working at night.
The day men consist of about 400,
many Of whom go into the mine at
night to make the extra time.
While practically all the miners
wording in the StarlI,illc mine are oil
ioreignF birth, many have been In this
country for 90 to 25 years. and q large
norton of them have been WORKING III
I The Starkville mine ever since II pc
gan operations in 1892
The mine Is the property of the santa
Fe railroad, but Is operated py 'ile
Colorado Fuel & Iron company.
HIGH HOPES FOR MEN.
High hope spread over this stricken
mining camp this morning when news
was brought out of the Starkvllle mine
that fans providing pure air 10 the
mine had been; put into operation sys,
tematically, and that tho imprisoned
men would undoubtedly be located
within the day unless cltorts Oh iescu-
c,s were further blocked by the Wreck--
age.
E'This information was given out Of
ticially by State Mine Inspector john
i, Jones never over enthusiastic at
nrospects, but willing to give hope
Wherever conditions Justify.
Inspector Jones based his opinion
mon the fact that u double force Tor
driving out the bad air in the mine mad
hneni successfully effected through the
stationing Of the portable fan well
withjn the short cut of the StarkVille
wine. while the fan in the rnain en-
rance 10 the Engieville mine had been
reversed and both we're WORKING to-
retner upon the same objective.
The fan in the StarkVille IS FORCING
sp,lre air. along the cuts and passage,
u
the impure airHto the opening In the
walls separating that mine from the
Enclevilie. At the same time the
Englevile fan is drawing the air out
Of the main working of that mine,
forming d suction that Is pulling the
gaseous air into the Engleville and out
into the air.
In addition to clearing the Starkville.
Of the bad air, Inspector Jones said, 1t
is being funnelled away from the ex-
IRENE southern working of the Stark
Vile mine and held captive so as to
prevent It's spreading to those sec
tons where the entombcd men are
supposed to be.
WHERE, MEN ARE.
1t is known that at least IL men in
the mine when the explosion occurred
Saturday night are at least milo
from the first cross cut through which
the bad air in the Starkville mine is
supposed TO be flowing into her sister
mine on the other side of the hill.
Without any stretch Of the imagina-
ton, said Inspector Jones, today,
these men could be alive and per-
fcctly safe unless Il cave-in crushed
out their lives, or the black damp
had reached them while fans We're
being set up
After-damp Is sensitive to the
changes in temperature us was indi-
Gated yesterday when rescuers were
driven suffocating from the east slope
OF the mine after advancing less than
SV0 rect Previous to this the men had
penetrated to the first cross cut moro
than 5000 feet, and had tr;lversed
me 1000 feet Of this cross cut to It's
Junction point with the west slope,
only to be forced to return by en-
eounterlng a blockade OF wrcckage.
When returning to the east portal, it
was first noticed that the air was bad
and the rcscuers fastened out In the
rev minutes elapsing before n re-
entry was made, this SLOPE had filed
WIN oxygcnless air and further at
.einnt had to be abandoned until fans
could be stationed,
Even the helmet men, with their
,.louern protective apparatus, includ-.
I. i,,s reservoirs of oxygen to supply the
iuhGs with pure cir for breathing.
."ulu 40 but little, and once 3 were
. ua,, overcome when their oxy-
ven became exhausted, and were res
nI[u with the greatest difficulty by
y p,Ssterate dashcs In the face Of death,
t;nu aoanaonment OF every considera-
.lon OF self by rcscuers gave wav to
more NOR, effective and infinitc,v ,oss
today 80 y iese'ue work
v, ~. ,.ne mouth of the mine a crowd
t t,S.',erea. At intervals a courier from
dan, ,I,sae would emerge from the black
snssi. signaling his approach by tho
1pdpk OF light shed by his lantern. 4
IN ~. conversation with an official Mt
th ,a portal followed and then back into
sa r earth' s nav would go the mcssen-
s nro unu the watchers outside would
t,Iss forward to hear the ncws con.
row sr,reu ,a u. the verbal report Of tho man
H4'oTPEFuLaNEws. G ONES. #
wh ~ .liA morning wore On, the crowd
wni i,i, 'iau settled down for Il dny5 or
proa s was aroused toBn greater de-
dars p'h.2Ihopeinlnessi when from out the
Is fnn , I'VE word came that the portable
ornsa "a'. reached IL position at tho first
4 anI NV 1900 feet from the entrance
snn I Mas working perfectly. This was
shi ft BY the statement that the
E nnrta,, " rescue men believed ths
Y vnnon g'e ian would be graduallyS4a1-
G. ,yhio,, 70 the first stationary fan
NJ mn M st wrecked by. tho explosion.
~ nort an iail IS lo,0oG,tatt The east
hs' - ~, ahh u 1t could be repaired would
al, ss .ae assistance inlclarifying the
Win As an Indication OF tho speed
,nn :, m, !, ~ rescue Work was progless-
il Il ', ~, ne thoronshness with Which
/; 4 ,o,. pe,lg carried out, the strinringsf,f
N sal!l 2, Wire wax promptly beyi,n
aIn,',a n as equipment arrived InF'n,,
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