BURIED ALIVE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5

BURIED ALIVE.

MINERS OVERWHELMED. COLLIERY EXPLOSION. HEAVY DEATH ROLL. MALE POPULATION OF A TOWN WIPED OUT. 3y Tolezraph—PirosS AsbotmUoß—Copyriijbi Vancouver, June 19. It is reported that an explosion of gas lias occurred at tlio Fcrni© coal mine. Relief trains have been fepatcW. It is not knoivm Itow many men svsreworking when tiro explosion < ecurir-ed. Two hundred and twenty-five mbii are entombed in the burning wine, and some four hundred ai'o said to have escaped.

' Sixty-five bodies have been recovered. Others entombed arc still living, but there is no hope of their recovery. The mine is hl-awn;: fiercely, and a huge volume of black siiwko is pouring cut of tlio mine shaft, five resellers are,in consequence ttwabte to enter.

DEATH ROLL 197, ALL RESCUE WOKS ABANDONED. ' CAUSE OF EXPLOSION. (Rcc. June 21, 5J5 p.m.) New YOf(i, June-20. All rescue work at tho coal mine, liilleresi:, Alberta, has been abandoned owing to tlio ef fire. Tho total deailt roil sum tors 107. Sixty bodies have been recovered, many being mangled bo.vortd rccogfi.fc tion. Tlie whole mate populatio® of tho town of Hiilerest has been wipmi ttCft, and two liundrtd hemes arc in maufwiiifr. . Firedamp exploded at the 1200 ft. level, burying sisores of miners beneath the fall of coal, and sUfiwt'atwg others. Smno were found standing, pick irt hand, as if about to begin work. Tho disaster is the watsi rSn tho history of Canadian coal mining.

ANOTHER COLLIERY . ABLAZE. MINEfisTsNtOMBED. Brussels, JnM ]!) has broken o«t in iho YiHe Mari Haye colliery at Liege. Two hundml moil" escaped, hut two hundred others onkmibrd.

ENTOMBED MEN RESCUED. (l?ec. Jtmo 21. 6,5 p.m.) Brussels, June 20. . All tho miners who were wvtanhed at the Ville Mari Haye colliery, have been rescued.