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Show MINERS PERISH IN MINE MOH ALBERTA BITUMINOUS MINE IS SCENE OF DISASTER: RESCUERS RES-CUERS ARE KEPT OUT Twenty-eight Men Were In Mine When Gat and Duat Exploded; Eighteen Made Way to Safety; There la Lltte Hope for the Reat Lethbridge Ten miners are belle-, ed to have had been killed by deadly gas, following an explosion In the Mo (iilllvray Creek mine, near here. Fire was sweeping the workings, preventing prevent-ing rescue work. Recurring explo-Btons explo-Btons prevented a senrch for bodies after two had been removed. - The theory that the men met death from the deadly afterdamp was advanced ad-vanced when rescue workers reported that the three bodies were found In positions which indicated that the men had been making frantic efforts to reach the surface when overcome by gas. Recurring explosions which lasted I until early Tuesday night prvented an extended search by rescue squads. Dense clouds of gas premeated the workings and the mine took fire following fol-lowing a particularly heavy explosion Tuesday afternoon. Mine Inspector Johnson Immediately ordered rescue teams to remain at the surface. Crowds of relatives and friends of the missing men remained at the head of the shaft Tuesday. |