Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — MANY KILLED IN MINE. [ARTICLE]

MANY KILLED IN MINE.

Two Powder Magazines Explode in Daly-West Shaft. Two powder magazines at the 1,200foot level of the Daly-West mine, near Park City, Utah, exploded early Wednesday morning, causing a loss of life which could not at once be estimated. Within three hours twenty-seven men had been taken out of the mine dead and several others had been recovered in a de.zed con--dltiou. These were all brought out through the Ontario mine shaft, a mile from the Daly-West, in which the explosion occurred. The 1,200-foot level of the Daly-West corresponds to and is •connected bjf tunnel with the 000-foot level of the Ontario. In the l)aly-West mine between 100 and 150 men were at work. In the Ontario were nearly 100. It is not known how many of them nre dead. Tf.erc nre two powder magazines at the 1,200-foot level of the Daly-West—one ut each side of the shaft—with a capacity of one to two ears of powder each. The explosiou occurred nt nn hour when every person In town was asleep or at work. The shock was so great that It awakened everyone within a radius of sevornl miles. As an example of its awful force it is told that two horses in the ore tunnel one and a half miles away were killed by it. Excitement was tremendous. Every person in the town had friends or relatives working in the mine, and women and children thronged to the Ontario ■haft house, midway between Park City add the IHriy-Wsnt. Nearly all of them had husbands or fathers In the mines.