Show I PERISH IN A MINE Twelve Chinamen Killed in an Explosion I I EIGHT OTHERS ARE INJURED t Disaster Occurs In Colliery atE at-E Cumberland B C I Rescue Party Went to Scene to Get I Out Injured Men but Black Damp Retarded Progress c v Nanalmo B C July IGVord reached here today that by an explosion m r of firedamp last t night Jn No 6 mine E Cumberland where fifty Chinamen and I L four white men were employed twelve I Chinese were killed and eight injured ri Little property damage was done f Since the strike the mine has been worked entirely l by Mongolians with 4 a few white overseers The mine was gaseous A rescue party headed by Manager Matthews went down to the scene to get out the Injured but the deadly blackdamp black-damp made this a slow and dangerous process This Is the mine where an explosion occurred two years ago In which fifty men lost their lives |