The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-10-27
PART Of PITMER
SAVED BY WALLS
Southern Portion of Stricken
Burrowing Little Affected
by Initial Shock but Rescue
Parties Are Unable to Reach
Section Where $50 or More
Men and Boys Are Cut Off.

RoyuItou. m oct -l--Oue hun
drcd or more miners probably were
burned TO death in tho Mitchell coal
mime near here totia when tor
rliic explosion occurred in the lower
lcNcl 81 the mine soon ait.r 800 men
had bcsuh work.
or those who entered the mine
about 100 escaped. but thirty bodies
soon were brought to me surface and
more than one hundred other men
were known stiu a. be imprisoned
in lower l,,el. eul OF from rescue
by fire.
Because of the IRE, attempts ni
rrspucrs to enter ,nr shaft wcro ,m-
possible ana u Was thought aa ot
those shut IF by tu. wall uf flame
Isl the interior wen. burned 60 death.
EuyHlton, mining village N'
miles southeast %. -i Louis uu the
So Louis. Iron Mountain a Southern
railroad was deserted saNe tur "a
woman telephone operator soon after
the report ot th, explosion came
from the mine about g mile away.
The villagers AN fsd gone Jp help
the men ont cot the buTnug mine
But the tvlephon, operator helped
she sent out distress calls 60 sur-
rounding towns au help was soon
on the Way from UIuuoin Murphys
horu aud Heutou a rescue car was
sent from Benton
The hundred miners Who escaped
were in parts og DO. mine not touch
ed by the lHme- Warned bN the
explosion of accumulated gas. thvy
sgurricd Go thy surface ana told OF
the spreading flames which had en-
tombcd moro than me third of their
number in a lower .aNel
Rcsrucrs vino pr. atratcd 3s f3r as
smoke aud heat aid permit soon
reported that the ght ol the men
was hopeless as .h lever level was
ON fire
ResDuers aud relatives of the min
'rs stood about th, mine shafts help
icss MINING Officials said that prob
abir lli thc men JEhf hy the IRE
were dead
An tho dead t,A,. from the upper
Lowell had been oN,I omc bog gas ami
none had bccn buiu.d.
The explosion occurred zoo the
northwest eueurr r the mine where
from lto to 200 m.u were vorkiHs
Mcn in tho southern part of che mine
heard the sNplnsI.. and hurrlsd tu
the cages thar tools hem 60 the sut
! face This part of .Ic mine was scp-
Z arated from THAT ton where the
explosion occurred .y thick wallis oi
coal
Three hundred ind s,yeniy-tuo
men we're employed in the mine. blf
as the disaster u.. rred about rNc
minutes before vuTs was tn begin.
about nny had rn. entered ;hc shaft
lp Co o.Ciu.e rescue parties
were unable to penetrate more than
800 feet in th, workings but at
than hour the -.ur car came from
heutnn, DO, with .1r hours supply
90 oSyEcn. This made possible q
further penetration ~ nc mine by
the rescue parties
General supeIutcndeni Mitchell
said be- ,uuid uoJ a.,o cunt Tor the "a
plosion. a. the min, had been iu com
tinuous operation md ua gases had
been detected
Lines OF hose were carried down
two shafts and an attempt was made
| 90 direct stroams Hf water through
Cross shans to tbs burning level
The gases made it dangerous for ths
/ nrc Fighters On approach close enough
I 90 do effective Nurk. ENueria said
the fire could be e1ntrolled oBly bs
scsling both cnfrance shafts and
4 pumpins water into the mine unit
I ah chambers were flooded This
1 however Will not ne done until sI
I hope of rescuins the imprisoned
miners is abandoned
Twenty Physicians neCompanicd
the rescue car from henlcn and wher
they arrived tkeN mad their hand
fuN looking after The wives ans
da hteTs OF the imprisoned miner