Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1907 — TWENTY MINERS ARE DEAD [ARTICLE]

TWENTY MINERS ARE DEAD

Explosion in a Colorado Pit Kills Them, Most of the Dead Being Italians. Trinidad. Colo., Jan. 24. Twenty miners, according to the most authoritative Information available, lost their lives as a result of an explosion which occurred in the Colorado Fuel and iron company’s coal mine near twenty miles west of tills city. Twenty coffins have been ordered by the company from a local undertaking establishment. Two of the dead are Frank Hobat, miner, and R. J. Lumley, fire boss. The names of the other men killed have not been learned, ns the shift boss who checked up the men who weut into the mine. Is missing. All the mon except Lumley were foreigners, most of them being Italians. The explosion stopped the air fan, and there is little chance that any of the men In the mine at the time of the explosion are still alive.