Show vancouver I 1 oal mine 1 ip lolon kill bill billy lle live miner sixty five miners vere ere I 1 alil ay inno tot the cumberland coal mine on N an couver island bland 11 II C the only exit ia ilia mouth of the shaft abal aich lil cli Is filled with a huge tot tol nine amo 0 of f aldules names there Is considered to bo be no possibility for the unfortunates to escape details of tho the are ara meagre tile cumberland mine Is ia in the village tillage of union about sixty miles north of tile the town of Nan janalino alino the only telegraphic communication from union Is ia b a single government wire and little Is ia known of the in the mine except that a terrible explosion occurred in no 0 shaft of the cumberland about 11 0 clock I 1 I 1 alday day morning mornine tile the explosion ignited the min tile the shaft aiom midway doal down n to the bottom an I 1 filling it v n ith a solid mass of bocks earth and timber the tha first explosion was as followed by several morel more while the denic volumes of smoke issuing fion the vent holes indicated only too truly that fire as well an gas gaa was doing its destructive work below |