http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0304916
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-06-27
issued: 1909-10-09
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note: ■'. ._ I Vol. 15. Wo$pt£i&t. t. r. •i'Oitroif. CRANBROOK, B.C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER .<>, 190U. No. 41 MINE HORROR ATNflNfllMO Nearly 60 Men Entombed by Disaster. —o—- fIRI THEN BttlAkS OUT Twenty-five are Saved Before Fire Stops Work of Rescuers. i T" Nannimo, Oct. 5.— Thirty men nre now known to he dead os a result ol ftn explosion in No. 2 mine nt Extension this morning. Up to 7 o'clock j this evening eight bodies have heen, recovered and identified. The work of rescue still continues, but it is not expected that any more bodies will bo recovered before morn Ing, as the portion of the mine where the explosion occurred is bad- i ly wrecked, thc brattice work being torn down, nnd the rescuers nre very j badly hampered hy gas. The majority of the men killed were old real- \ dents of the district nnd were nil' well known. Victoria, Oct. 5. A tiro damp ex* plosion in n mine at Extension, a. camp sixty miles from here, this. morning wrecked No. 3 level of No. 2 mine, owned by the Wellington Col- Hory company, head of which is Lieu* I tenant-Governor .1 times Dunsmuir. bis brother-in-law's body, Tom. O' Connell, a well known athlete and recently elected manager of the Lady- smith football team. The sister was told thnt both husband nnd brother wore dead and sunk sobbing into a chair, Another victim. Kred Ingham is the third son that Mrs, Ingham bus lost in mining accidents and the third she has mourned because of mini1 explosions. The coming of the train from Victoria wns followed by sad incidents, A number of the relatives of missing mon were among the passengers. Miss Ingham fell shrieking .when told thut her brother wns lost and was carried Wailing bitterly up the hill. DEATH ROLL NOW THIRTY, j l.adysmith, Oet. ii.—The following bodies have been recovered:- Thomas O'Connell, single. Andrew Moilatt, married; throe children. .lames Ewart, married, one child. Uobert Marshall, single. Willinm Robertson, married, wife visiting at Seattle. William Qulnn, single. Edward Dunn, …