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Show Rescuers Battle Against Flames and Smoke lo Save Lives. Hobart, Tasmania, Oct. 14. Hundreds Hun-dreds of rescuers are battling against flames and smoke to savo elghty-nlno entombed miners at the North Mount Lyell mine. The fire started through the blowing out of a motor fuse last Sunday. In a fow minutes dense black clouds of smoke began to your from tho mouth of the main tunnel shaft, where 150 men were known to )be working. Tottering and exhausted, seventy-six seventy-six men who had beon working at the 200 foot level, ascended In reaching tho surface through the smoke- that time and again threatened to suffo-cato suffo-cato them Ono died after he got out. The heat near tho main shaft is terrific. Rescuers have boon forced to return to tho surface. However, soveral men succeeded In reaching th 600-foot level, whore one body was found They were unable to carry the body out. A dU'Ing gear is boing prepared and it Is hoped some of the entombed men may ultimately be rescued. |