Show SIXTEEN LIVES OUT IN MINE EXPLOSION rescue leader killed and four other members of party injured when searching for victims belle valley valey 0 0 sixteen are dead as the result of two explosions saturday da y in the imperial mine of the coal co company pany with offices at cambridge g 6 of these fifteen were caught by the first explosion and the tha sixteenth victim of tho blast was a member of the first rescuing party four miners were recovered olive alive but are believed to be fatally injured the bodle s were found by the third rescuing party which attempted to enter the mine since the first explosion at 6 30 saturday they were found a galleand ral mile leand and a halt half from the mouth of the mine and behind huge piles of debris and wreckage the first rescue party headed by henry fairhurst FIr hurst tried to reach the tha eh en bombed men dimmed immediately lately after the first blast and had proceeded proceed td cd a mile into the mine when a second explosion followed and fairhurst was killed A second party entered the mine shortly before I 1 midnight but after groping about in the smoke as the gases in the mine were burning they returned to tho the surface |