FIRE IN CANADIAN MINE

Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 4

FIRE IN CANADIAN MINE

FORTY-SEVEN MEN TRAPPED TWO BODIES RECOVERED. OTTAWA, February 10. A message from Sudbury, Ontario, states that forty-seven men were trapped by fire in Hollinger gold mine, and are believed to be dead. Two bodies have been recovered. Smoke is halting rescue work. The blaze was caused by spontaneous combustion in an abandoned working.—A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. VANCOUVER, February 11. Seven miners were taken alive from the gas-filled levels of Hollinger gold mine at North Bay, and there is still hope that the remaining forty men may bo saved by the morning Two relief trains carrying gas masks broke all speed records from Toronto to Timmins, 452 miles. AMERICA AND GERMANY SUBMISSION Ob’ ARBITRATION TREATY, WASHINGTON, February 11. An arbitration treaty similar to that recently signed by Franco and the United States will be offered by Germany soon after the Senate acts upon the French pact. There is at present no arbitration treaty between the United States and Germany, because those countries did not sign such an agreement when Mr Elihu Root negotiated a score of arbitration pacts in 1908 and 1909.