The siners' Doom

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 5

The siners' Doom

TERRIBLE CANADIAN DISASTER,

'explosion iX A COAL MINE

ALL HtirE ABANDONED.

THE MINE ONTIRJ:

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<ociation—Copyright Xrsv York, June 19. It is reported that 200 were killed in the Forme coal u.me explosion of coal gas. Relief trains ;iave been despatched. (t is not known hew many were working when the explosion' occurred. Ottawa, June IU. Two hundred and twenty-live men were entombed ic a burning mine in the Feniie district. Four hundred escaped. 'Sixty-five bodies have been recovered. Others are still living, but there is no hope ofthcir recovery. The mine is olazing fiercely, huge volumes of black smoke pouring up the mine shaft. Rescuers are unable to enter the mine.

Received 20, 5.5 p.m. New York, June 20. All rescue work at tlie Fernie coal mine, Hillcrest, Alberta, has been abandoned owing to the outbreak of fire. The total death roll is 197. Sixty bodies nave been recovered, many of them mangled beyond recognition. The whole male population of the town of Hillcrest was wiped out, and two hun- - dred homes are in mourning. - Kredamp exploded at the 1200 ft level, /Jhujing scores of miners .beneath the , and suffocating others. Some were '•Jrjund standing, pick in hand, as if about to begin work.

The disaster is the worst in the history, of Canadian coal mining.

THE BELGIAN CATASTROPHE. ALL THE VICTIMS RESCUED. Received 20, 5.5 p.m. i Brussels, June 20. All the entombed miners have been rescued.