DISASTER IN A MINE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 5

DISASTER IN A MINE.

REPORTED THAT 4GO HAVE PERISHED. New York, November M, Advices from Spring Valley, Illinois, state that it is estimated that .ICO persons have perished'in a fire in a mine belonging to the St. Paul Comimny, AH attempts at rescue have been abandoned. HOPE FOR TWO HUNDRED. (Reo. Noyembor 15, 9.10 p.m.) - New York, November IS, The explosion was caused by a fire 'In a bundle of hay, which smouldered until it broko into flames. Of ly, men, mostly Austrian? and Italians, who were below, thirty near tha main shaft Two hundred retreated to the furthermost ends of the galleries, nnd it wfts. feared early in the day that they had perished with tho rest, The floqding of the pi£ was impossible, and with a hope of cheeking the flamea tho manager closed the mouth of the sljoft. Six wonld-be reschers woro suffocated, Latir, two volunteers wearing oxygon hoi. inots tested the tomporature to a depth of 3SO feet, and found it nearly normal, indicating that the fire was then extinguished. There is, therefore, some hope, though slight, of effecting the rescuo of the imprisoned men.