Show DEATH IN THE DEPTHS Three Hundred ami Filly Miners Con ilued in a Flaming Fit TwentyTwo of Them Instantly Killed jy an Explosion of Fire Damp A Heartrending Scene at the Mouth of the Mine Three ESasiclTCil Colliers in n Fearful Fear-ful yix LONDON June 3A dispatch received this aft ctoon from Durham says A fire broke out In the Philadelphia colliery near this city at noon today Three hundred miners are Ji the pitand attempts so far to subdue sub-due th3 flames or render assistance to the imprisoned men have failed Great excitement excite-ment exists and it is feared that the majority major-ity of the entombed miners will perish A large force of men are at work at the colliery col-liery trying to rescue them LONDON June 33 p mA Durham dispatch dis-patch just received states that the colliery on fire is the property of Earl Durham and is known as the Margaret pit It is now feared that all the men and boys within the pit will be lost Their number is placed at I 330 Excitement in the neighborhood the burning colliery increases momentarily Relatives of the imprisoned miners crowd around the mouth of the pit weeping and I wailing in a most heartrending manner LONDON Juno 35 p mA later dispatch I says all but thirtytwo of the miners have I since then been rescued and those missing are supposed to be killed The fire was caused by an explosion of firedamp LONDON June 35 p m Another dispatch dis-patch from Durham states that the fire in the colliery near that place occurred in the top seam of the Margaret pit the Peggy pit as it is known locally that it was caused by an explosion and that twentytwo men and boys at work there were killed The explosion was followed by a rush of water in immense volumes into tho Sutton seam but the miners men and boys however were all taken out alive Working parties I are laboring zealously to stay the flood of I water rushing into the Maudlin seam where a great number of miners are imprisoned I and whom the reliefs hope to release and I save |