Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — EIGHTY-SEVEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

EIGHTY-SEVEN KILLED.

Fvpissliwi of Dya.mlto Demolishes • Vlll*«e in Mexico. Word has reached Chihuahua, Mexico, of a terrible mining disaster. An explosion in the San Andres mine, situated in a remote locality of the Sierra Madres, in the western part of the state of Durango, caused the death of eighty-seven men, women and children, and injured many others. The catastrophe was due to the explosion of several hundred cases of dynamite, stored in an underground chamber of the mine. Electric wires connecting with the hoisting machinery passed through the room in which this dynamite was stored, and it is supposed that these wires became crossed, thereby causing a fire which set off the dynamite. All of the killed and injured were on the surface, most of them occupying residences immediately over the underground workings of the mine. The explosion tore away the whole top of the mountain, on which tne village of miners was located, and men, women and cnildren were blown into pieces. Among those who were killed were Herman Luetsman, the superintendent of the mine, and all the members of his family. Qus ran tin* 14 Men In a Car. Fourteen men are quarantined in a passenger coach between Third and Fourth streets in Merrill, Wis., Tuesday. Conductor Gid Little, on. train No. 2 on the Milwaukee road, discovered a man supposed to have the smallpox before the train reached Tomahawk. He wired to the board of health in that city and police removed the patient at that place. All who had been exposed were locked in the smoker and taken to Merrill.