The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1910-12-09
Dead and Injured.

in the history OF the luckless mine, IL
miners having lost their lives in 1902.
Dead and Injured.
The dead:
Julius Puysow, married, one child.
Fred SETH, married, one child.
Oscar Bael, married, one child.
Caesar Bael, single.
Cyril Macs, single.
Frank Gardini, single.
Isador Gardini, single.
Joseph Runner, single.
Maetili Fanstiria, married, three chill.
dren.
Dave London, Single.
c. Beagi, wife in Italy.
Dominic Gregori, single.
Albert, Fontana, single.
Francis Vergani, single.
julius Cappiati, wife in Italy.
The injured: Arvila MARITIME, Louis
MARITIME, Louis Kruntz.
So terrific was the explosion that il
| shook the countryside for miles around
and carried fear to the inhabitants of
tie mining district that a mighty seis-
mic disturbance was taking place. From
out Of the mouth of the slope running
TO the bowels of the mine belched tons
and tons of earth, rock and debris, huge
timbers and steel supports, and, ominOus
in their import, coats, hats and caps
the wearing apparel Of the unfortunate
victims of the disaster. Timbers meas.
uring two feet in thickness and 20 feet
in length were hurtled through the air
a quarter of a mile. A great steel pipe
was thrown half a mile with such ter
rife force that when it struck the earth
It imbedded itself Is feet. The explO-
sion blew the from the mine practically
all the timbers and supports in the
slopes and airshafts, and the Minis imme'
diately began to ave in.
That the Is men caught in the explO'
sion met instant death is not doubted
Shortly before the tragedy the night
foreman had come to the surface. A
routine detail, he chalked on the black
board at the mouth of the nine his
mornings report on conditions below,
80. K. No fire damp
Ten men, comprising the Sunday SHIFT
entered the elevator cage and were car
, ried below, meeting on the way five
t members of the night crew coming up
t At some point, believed to have prooa'
bly, been between the fifth and sixth
levels, when both shifts were in close
proximity to each other, their lives were
snuffed out.
! Coal Company's Defense
lis managers claim precautionary
measures against the occurrence oil eA'
. plosions had always been taken by 'nS
Pacific Coast Coal company, owning ana
Q koperating the mine, inforcing a rule PlO,
e hibiting employees, on pain oil lnS'an -
discharge. from entering the mine WIZ
J. matches on their persons. As a genera
! rule all employees are searched every l'"
. days. This morning, it happens, the mem
bers of the Sunday shift were not 0uD
iected to this examination Inc ON!
a theory offering an explanation Ioi ~
explosion-one which officials OIL '%
mine believe tenable-is that a hsSuIg =
poisonous gases opened within the la5
6 few days and, remaining undlSco''."
was ignited by a workman lighting
match on the ascending or desceHu'l
# trip. For several days preceding anu - :
the time Of the explosion, the eIec'ii'
10 | - - 1Nf IN thp mine.
Women and Children Gather
Barely a few minutes elapsed atls
y the report of the explosion was n0l,
u before every employ of the mine' ioa g,
izing instantly what had hapPen7u n
= alive to the imperative necessity ~ s.n,
n ginning at onee the work OF Il No.
a should there be any survivors, sa'H, =,
IS before the gaping hole that once an,
tba slono soon their number was "''
mented by the womc and eh!ll,ou
sc the neighborbood, among them alf an
TX inc the anxious faces Of the "'''
lo children of the mines vietisi'' r,.mr
Hinder the direction Of James -
: superiptendent of the mine, the VI
' attempting a rescue began immsl'I Inn
- the fun working force, goo men, ;sso-
n, ing to with a will. Then 1t was .Io su
cred that even had the men ins' ~
vived. their rescue was impropaU"' T.
the force of the explosion wa f,.n
rife that practically every BIT o a-sbaf
work supporting the slopes ana ,renr
or had been blown ost and every