Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-25
TWENTY-FIVE UNCONSCIOUS
on,,ter Of a Hundred Volunteer
SesCuers Go Down Before
Deadly Gas.
-. m scene Administer Heroic
Treatment to the sufferers and
save several Lives.
especial to The News)

u.mmoth. June 25.--Three Austrians
,,.,a killed and nine miners overcome
IN premature explosion IN the OpeS
mine here at 3 o'clock this morning.
ns,or the miners were removed and
,hs three bodies recovered, % men who
s.rt INTO the mine az rescue parties
VIEW overcome with gas. Volunteers
were called for from the mines I'm the
vicinity to go into the mine and search
for the rescuers By noon the miners
and members OF the rescue parties had
,4sn brought to the surface and re-
,ived Two Of the Austrlans' bodies
we're found in the is25-foot level, where
they had been blown by the concussion.
The other was caught under
,he great mass OF fallen rock
caused by the explosion which occurred
in a raise and It took several hours to
eytricate the body DIR. Harvielle and
Dr. Bailey administered heroic treat
ment to the miners and saved the lives
OF several Of the miners. Ray Perry.
miner % years old. was the only vic
tim taken to the Tintlc hospital He
was unconscious for several hours. but
It Is believed by Dr. Haryielle that he
will recover,
THE DEAD.
The miners who were killed were
Mike sabln. 20 years old Nick Sabin.
80 years old: and Peter Pawich, 80
years old. The latter was married and
has family Of several children. The
other two were cousins and unmarried.
The three men were working a raise
on the 1s35-foot level and had just put
10 round OF holes. Mike Sabin took
box Of giant powder from the powder
house on that level into the raise just
few minutes before the explosion. 1t
Is believed that the miners were load
ING he holes when the explosion oC-
CURED
There were several men working on
The ls25-toot level when the explosion
occurred and they attempted to reach
ne raise. only the one explosion was
heard AMI 10 is believed that the box
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powder was ignitcd and burned up.
This hlled the entire mine with fumes
and the men of the l925-foot level We're
overcome, before they could reach the
raise 10 find out what had occurred.
srpT MCUMMINGS TO RESCUE.
supt McCummings Of the Opex
Nmch Is owned principally by Jesse
Knight directed the work Of resCuing
'ne miners. lie was overcome on his
hfd trip into the mine when he went
GOWN with inc first rescue party As
le rescuers approached the raise In
Nhith me explosion occurred they
Nere overcome and fell unconscious in
lltlr tracks. In some manner Supt.
Motummings rygained consciousness
ana came 10 the surface for another
lescue party. By this time the gas
from the burning powder had nlled
'he lower Wot kings OF the mine. With
out any hcsitanCy the second party
was lowered into thu mine and began
sIoplng about in search of miners who
Aaa been overcome The men who
composed the second relief were also
overcome
DOCTORS AND VOLUNTEERS
DR. Haryicl,e and Dr. Bailey were sent
t ana volunteers We're rushed from
g Nehudi mine To the OpcN. The
.sn,u party was able TO make the 1925
lo9t level whore some OF the uncon-
tHous miners We're found. As fast rs
losslole The men We're taken to the
.ullaee and the physicians revived
ue" before the miners who were in
ulv NINE az the time OF the explosion
we aheh out, rs members II the res
W. , party We're overcome. Supt. McCum-
nnss handled the work in an excellent
r n,aIuef ana several of the miners who
tnpostd the rescue party did some
N.Y. M hinss % an effort to save the
men IN the mine.