People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — MANY MINERS KILLED [ARTICLE]

MANY MINERS KILLED

FEARFUL DISASTER AT ZACATECAS, MEXICO. One Hand red and Seventy Men Perish in a Burning Mine—Heroic Efforts of Their Comrades Conld Not Save Them. News from the mine disaster at Zacatetas, Mexico, shows the calamity fully as bad as first reported. Fire broke out in Sanamoro mine, one of the properties of the Sombrerete companies, and communicated to the San Francisco mine. The principal shaft in the former is 3,000 feet deep, and a rescuing party went down to the bottom, but were nearly suffocated by smoke. The Cornish miners displayed unusual heroism in attempting the relief of the imprisoned men. There is no doubt that 170 miners perished.