Show the killing of fifty men in the vulcan mine colorado and the deatle of more than persona africa by ilie explosion of twenty tons of dynamite tell of the dangers of mining ani bring vividly 0 o mind the fatalities which now and then in mining camps butte city sometime over a ica ago witnessed the s weeping from the face of the earth of its entire fire department and many out friders who had rushed to the rescue and the demolishing of buildings near by explosions floods sli desand every distress and misfortune that can happen on land or sea face the miner in his search for the metals of the earth johannesburg is getting initiated into the vicissitudes of mining life and the kaffits and boers will see things that daze and hear things that bewilder which would never have occurred in the homes of the zulu or kaffir if the miner had not bound tho precious metals within the country bordering on the and when virginia city was the greatest greate bt ruining camp in the horld fires broke out in the forest of timbers underground and abed delvers perished like rats in a burn ina ship immense pipes uh ec alding water from the fiery depths swept down upon the imprisoned unfortunates a fire started on the surface aix oix day columns of flamo danced in the heavens an d the side of mt do ak son on which the city stood was arapp tl in uniting heat when the ot tho second day came the dimp was obliterated he fol ilo wini new city phoenix like rose eer lie ashes liutti city in later years has ranked as the 1 di ning camp and it has had its horrors men have been dropped in group of ten and fifteen from the surface down perpendicular shafts a thousand feet or more to death long funeral cortexes corteges corte followed the charred dead to the grave and mourning has been on homes in every portion 0 tho city because ot disaster now comes johannesburg after endeavoring deavo ring to bring down the flash and the thunders of war that mars might reign supreme they resort to importing an article tint has bent more miners in dismembered form to death than would make a mighty army the press dispatches eay the country for miles armourd vas by an earthquake and houses for a mile razed to the ground the speed relief fund was obtained i in keeping with the ways of a mining vamp but the eum alicy have be almost beyond creditableness it edid not know ol 01 the wealth of that and abo proverbial liberality of miners johannesburg is a world of wonders within Ite elfand eo are all great mining centers |