ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.
An appalling disaster eccurred at Pittaburg, in the Pittaburg and Cheroki mine, which resulted in the loaa of ever 80 lives. An explosion occurred at 5.12 o'clock, when the daily blast is fired. One of the blasts preved to be defective, and ahot a { stream of fire, igniting gas and fine particles of coal dust stirred up by two previous blasts, All the miners were felled, and masses of ceal hurled upon them. The eoncussien shook every part of the mine. A terrible explosion ocourred at the mines of the Kettle Greek ■ Coal Mining Company, Clinton County, Peonsylvaaia, on November 3, and of 21 men working in the drive only three or four escaped death or injury. The explosion was caused by fire-damp. Thirty men were killed in a coal mine explosion at Auleronia, Sicily, on November 9. An explosion, caused by fire-damp, took place in the Champagoac colliery, Avignon, France, on NoYember 3: The pit waa full of men at tbe time, and some 80 were t. killed and many mutilated beyond re- f* cognition. - • > •' An explesion occurred on November 14 <tt Frederick Pittdowo, Belgium. Twenty men were killed. A despatch dated London, November 3, says that a carrier recently arrived at Zanzibar from Sofala and reported that a patty of Arabs met Stanley's rear guard west of Albert Nyaoza last November. It WBB composed of 30 men. Stanley, with the advanoe of the expedition was •* two days' march ahead. Great had been endured, endowing to tbe thick forests tbe expedition waa unable to march more than a mile and a quarter
daily. Many members had died, «»nd 40 were drowned in*' crossing a river. Stanley was forded to fight hoatilo tribes to secure provisions. ' Hii health was cool and he hoped to arrive at Wadelai within fifty day!. On the other hand the Swedish explorer Westmiok,. now id Berlin, received a le'ter on November 1J fr»m a friend on the Congo expressing a confident beliefthat Stanley is dead. A quantity ? of mail news will be found on our fourth p"ag6.] ~,. ■. ,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1827, 11 December 1888, Page 2
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345ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1827, 11 December 1888, Page 2
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