Show ANOTHER EXPLOSION almy the scene of adoth another er catastrophe narrow marrow escape of a alar large slumber number of men only six weeks since a terrible explosion occurred in mine no 4 at almy resulting in the death of eleven persons and on sunday about 1155 mine no 3 at the same place was the scene of another catastrophe of a similar nature but less serious in its consequences it seems the mine had been reported free from gas on saturday evening but at the time of the occurrence it had bad accumulated on the ath level and was ignited by a man named med james moon who was not aware of the danger thoughtlessly lighting his lamp the explosion caused the wildest excitement both in the mine and among the f friends of the miners on the dur surface face and efforts were immediately made to rescue the large number of miners employed below who it was feared were killed or seriously burned tion soon disclosed the fact that only four persons were burned very badly though quite a large number had bad their hair singed and within two and a half hours after the explosion all were safely landed on the surface james moon was burned considerably about the face archibald buchanan received se vere injuries about the face and hands aud aad bishop bowns and james martin suffered somewhat the injuries to the others were slight and con consisted d of being slightly burned and almost suffocated with the foul gas from which they readily recovered |