The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-10-23
Explosion in New Mexico Mine In.
prisons 23O Men Government
Rescue Cars are Promptly
Started to Scene
q MINERS TAKEN
OUT ALIVE SO FOR
Six Bodies Have Been Removed.-Lit
tie Hope for the Others in the
Ground Rescue Work
Proves Perilous
Telegram By united Press

Telegram by United Press
Dawson, n NJ, Oct 2S.-At s O'Clock
this morning sixteen more miners
were rescued alive from the Stag
Canon mine No. ?, where an explosion
occurred at o'clock Wednesday aft
efnoon. entombing at least 2s0 men.
Az $3.50 only six bodies had been re.
covered.
An unconfirmed report this morn
Ing said fire had broken out in the
mine Earlier reports that fourteen
bodies had been removed were caused
by the fact that most OF the living
miners taken out we're unconscious
when rescued
Il is estimated that from 2s5 to 2Go
are still entombed and there is little
hope OF rescuing them.
General Manager 0Brien is leading
in the rescue work attacking the de-
bris ia the choking passages. The
afterdamp is very heavy and is sure
death TO rescuers uneqGipped with
oxygen helmets. Only ten rescuers
can work at the same time and pro
gress is therefore slow.
Six rescuers were overcome this
morning Hundreds OF women with
children refused to abandon their vigil
at the mines mouths.
A federal mine rescue car left Rock
Springs. Wyo.. this morning and will
arrive on the scene tonight CT early
tomorrow. Another car may come
from Arkansas.
Coroner sipes OF Trinidad. Colo,
said he received authoritative word
at $3.50 this morning that two hun
dred and thirty men we're hopelessly
imprisoned and he ordered all the
caskets and embalming fluids avail
able to be sent to the scene Of the
disaster.
Immediately after the explosion all
shifts we're called 10 the work Of res.
cue and those miners who were EN-
pioyed in other shafts were put to
work drilling through the debris which
was said to have blocked the mine be-
low the second level
The United States rescue car sta
toned at Trinidad was summoned and
every available man in Dawson is aid
ing in the attempt to reach the 81
tombed miners
Rescuers worked heroically to Sup
ply air to the men. Reports from the
mine did not state at which level the
explosion occurred. but simply that
the mine shaft was blocked from the
second level
The mine property is owned by the
Phelps-Dodge company Of New York
Five mines are connected in the
workings and it is thought that if any
OF the miners escaped death in the
explosion they should be able to reach
safety.
f. L. Miller, superintendent Of th'
Colorado Fuel and Iron company res
cue department, with a crew Of train
ed rescuers, left Trinidad, Colo, on |
special car for Dawson with oxyger
helmets and other apparatus.
At 10 O'Clock last night the rescueri
had penetrated more than 100 feet in
TO the mouth Of the mine and reache'
five Of the entombed miners who wer'
alive. They had suffered much iron
the gas and were in no condition t
tell what happened at the time Of tn
explosion.
Immediately on being brought to tn
surface the men were given into tn
care OF physicians. many Of WHOM
have arrived here from nearby towns
1t is believed the explosion occurre
on a slope deep within the mine.