MINING DISASTERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1914, 9 July 1889, Page 1

MINING DISASTERS.

Paris, July 4.

A terrible , catastrophe occurred in - the s mining district of St; Etienne by an ex*• plosion of fire-damp in a colliery, Two! hundred miners haYe been killed.

None of the victims of the terrible i calamity at the St: Etienne colliery have: been rescued.

President Carnot is taking measures j for the relief cf the widows and families of the dead, whose number is stated to be 200.

[St. Etienne is a town with a popnla-, tion of 111,000, and is situated in the department of the Loire, on the banks; of the Parens, about thirty-two miles; from Lyons. ' It is famous for its cutlery, .fire-arms, and other kinds of hard--ware, besides manufactories; of ribbons and other silk goods. It is surrounded | by coal mines 1 and is even built on coa[ deposits, so that sorne galleries are, driven beneath the streets. During thej sway of fire-arms were tamed out at the rate of from 60,000 to 100,000( per annum.]

Sydney, July 5. The work of rescuing the imprisoned miners has ceised for the present, owing| to fresh dangers threatening those engaged in the depths of the mine. A pony, which had been entombed twelve days, was rescued alive, : ! July 7. All hope of rescuing the entombed miners has been abandoned. 7;