Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — TWENTY-NINE KNOWN DEAD. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-NINE KNOWN DEAD.

At Least That Number Perished In Smuggler-Union Disaster. Telluride, Colo., dispatch: The number of victims of the disaster in the Smuggler-Union mine is now known to be at least twenty-nine, with a considerable portion of the mine yet unexplored. Besides the twenty-two bodies taken out and identified at night, seven were located in the afternoon in the north end of the ninth level, but the gas is still too strong to permit the rescuers to reach them, and their Identity is as yet unknown. Several members of the searching parties were overcome in their efforts to bring out the bodies.