Show THIRTY MINERS DOOMED all hope of escape for imprisoned men is abandoned dortmund prussia A fire has broken out in the borussia Bo russia coal mine caused by the careless handling of a lamp by boys the lamp exploded igniting the timbers of the shaft which burned rapidly two hundred and fifty miners escaped through an air shaft but thirty nine were cut off and their death Is re graded as certain the work of rescue Is attended with great danger owing to the pres ence of poisonous gases and six of the rescuers are reported missing the ground over the mine Is sinking gradually with a sound like that of thunder as the supporting timbers of the mine are being burned away great crowds of women and ahll dren are standing about the mine in a drenching rain hoping for the rescue of eubands and fathers |