People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — FIVE MEN SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

FIVE MEN SLAIN.

Blasting Powder In a Colorado Tunnel Ignited by a Current of Electricity with Shocking Results. Leadville, Col., April 19.—At the Buck-Ivanhoe tunnel, the line of the Colorado Midland 18 miles west of here, a terrible explosion occurred at an early hour Tuesday morning. Five men were killed and eight seriously injured. The extent of the damage cannot be told now. An employe who came in from the tunnel says the explosion was a terrific one. The directcause was the lighting of powder jby the turning on of a current of electricity which com* mumcatcd to the powder.