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Show THIRTY MINERS DOOMED. All Hope of Escape for Imprisoned Men is Abandoned. Dortmund, Prussia. A flro has broken out In tho Rorussln coal mine, causod by tho caroless handling of a lamp by boys. Tho lamp exploded, igniting tho timbers of tho shaft, which burned rapidly. Two hundred nnd fifty miners escaped through an nir shaft, but thirty-nine wcro cut off and their death is regradod as cortalu. The work of rescue Is attended with great danger owing to the presence pres-ence of poisonous gases and six of tho rescuers are reported missing. Tbo ground over tho mlno Is sinking gradually with a sound Ilka that or thunder as the supporting timbers of tho mlno nro being burned away. Oreat crowds of women nnd children chil-dren are Btandlng about tho mlno in a drenching rain, hoping for tho rescuo of hubands and fathers. |