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Show (CyW. U. Telegraph.) THE DHl JI.WOND COLLIERY EXPLOSION. EX-PLOSION. Halifax. 14. The latest news from toe Urunimond colliery, this morning, reprice ntd tho fire still raging in the shalts and dopes. All hopes of rescuing res-cuing the men must be abandoned. It is now elated that there woro sixty men in the pit. Another heavy explosion explo-sion oecurrO't in the mine about 2 tbis morning. It is thought to be almost impossible that any uf the moo in the pit eao be living, and is known that only four or five got out beforo trip explosion. ex-plosion. The fire caught from a flvnk i of gunpowder and the men remaiocd to put out the flamep. Odo report says Mr. Dunn and thirty men Wc-nt -iowQ to asrist in putting out the fire about twenty minutes before the explosion explo-sion occurred, at which time it is sup-noted sup-noted that all the men wero near the flames and that many, if not all, wore killed at once by the explosion. |