Show seventeen coal miners lose tl air in aa aloa at t ictoria seventeen men are dead as the result of a fire and on in mine no 2 belonging to the wellington colliery company at victoria tuesday the flames started from a curtain which caught file from a miner s lamp in half an hour the whole slope was on fire u part es entered the mine and reached the place where the m ners had been at work but the men had gone with the fresh air instead of against it in an attempt to get out by the accustomed route thus meeting death half way while the rescuers were at work the mine explode ed block ng them and ons con linued all afternoon and g |