Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1909-10-15 | Page 4 | Thirty Perish in Mine

THIRTY PERISH IN MINE explosion entombs fifty men in british columbia colliery nanaimo Nan almo D ce C thirty lives were lost in an explosion that entombed more than fifty men in the extension mine of oc tho the wellington colliery company here tuesday twenty ot of the imprisoned men were rescued but the rapidly spreading tire fire prevented tho the rescuers from completing U lr work light eight bodies have been recovered tho the men employed in the collier tea ies on vancouver island aro are of a better ter cless class ot of british miners and all are well paid and have comfortable homes the we wellington colliery company which owns the extension mine Is controlled by british columbia capitalists lieutenant governor jamea being the head bead of the corporation