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Show IVIINERS PERISH IN MINEEXPL0SI0N ALBERTA BITUMINOUS MINE IS SCENE OF DISASTER; RESCUERS RES-CUERS ARE KEPT OUT Twenty-eifjht Men Were in Mine When Gas and Dust Exploded; Eighteen Made Way to Safety; There is Litte Hope for the Rest Letnbridge Ten miners are believed believ-ed to have had been killed by deadly tas, following an explosion in the Mc-Glllivray Mc-Glllivray Creek mine, near here. Fire was sweeping the workings, preventing prevent-ing rescue work. Recurring explosions explo-sions prevented a search for bodies after two had been removed. The theory that the men met death from the deadly afterdamp was ad-ranced ad-ranced 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 fas. Recurring explosions which lasted 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. U. S. Gives Final Word to Mexico Washington President Coolidge has served notice upon Mexico that diplomatic dip-lomatic relations with that country will be severed if American properties In Mexico should be confiscated under the terms of the Mexican alien land and oil laws, which go into effect next January. This was disclosed when the state department made public the recent re-cent correspondence between Washington Washing-ton and Mexico City in the oil and alien land controversy. Closing the correspondence of protest against the plain Intent of the Mexican government govern-ment to dispossess Americans of oil and agricultural lands valued at $1,,-000.000,000, $1,,-000.000,000, Secretary of State Kellogg, In his final note refers to the "extremely "ex-tremely critical situation affecting the relations" of the two countries that will be created if Mexico carries her evident purpose iiito effect. |