Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — MINERS ARE BLOWN TO BITS. [ARTICLE]

MINERS ARE BLOWN TO BITS.

Coal Dnst Explosion in Sunshine Shaft, Near Glenwood, Col. Eleven Italians and one American workman were instantly killed by an explosion in the Sunshine mine, sixteen miles southeast of Glenwood Springs, Col. The explosion filled the mine with smoke and dust and for some time it was thought that the loss of life had included all of the workmen in the mine. It was an hour before the workmen in adjacent mines were able to go into the Sunshine property. Then it was found' that the loss of life, heavy as it was, had been confined to one chamber. The miners in the other parts of the mine were soon released. It is thought that too many blasts resulting from the incessant work had filled the chamber with coal dust which was exploded by the blow-out. It is also reported that there was a barrel of powder in the chamber. M. Levidis, formerly Greek minister of marine, who was struck by M. Grivas, chief of staff of the Greek fleet, in the lobby of the Chamber of Deputies, has decided not tn challenge his assailant to a duel, but to appeal to the Chamber of Deputies. Walther’s “Preislied,” from “The Meistersinger,” was the song which took first prize at the recent Welsh Eisteddfod at Pontypooh Dr. William Nast, the patriarch of German Methodism, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in Cincinnati last week.