MINE EXPLOSION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 December 1913, Page 5

MINE EXPLOSION.

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).)

THIRTY-EIGHT WORKERS DEAD.

RESCUE WORK HAMPERED BY

FIRE DAMP

(Received December 17, 9 a.m.) VANCOUvVER, December 16. It is reported from Grand Junction (Colorado) that an explosion in the Vulcan mine, in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, entombed forty or fifty miners. Tho rescuers are unable to enter owing to after lamp. NEWCASTLE (Colorado), Dec. 16. Thirty-eight of the miners are dead. The rescuers were unable to find a single living person. Several bodies have been recovered. it" fs not known whether the explosion is due to dust or gas. The rescue work is being continued.

A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION

VICTIMS TERRIBLY MANGLED

PATHETIC SCENES AT MINE'S

MOUTH

(Received Last Night, 9.40 o'clock. ■ NEW YORK, December 17.

An eye-witness describes the Vulcan mine explosion in Colorado as the e4uai of a volcanic eruption. The flames and smoke shot from the mine's mouth and the whole mountain rocked from the detonation, which was like that of a thousand cannon. Forty men were working in the mine, two of whom were rescued. The victims are married men. > The bodies were recovered in a frightfully mangled) state. Their wives and children crowded round the mouth of the mine, hysterically giving way to grief. The pathetic scenes continued hour after hour. Father Carrigan penetrated the mine ahead of the rescuers at imminent risk of his life, in order to accord the Church rites to any dying person.