A MINE ON FIRE.
: SIGHT HUNDRED MEN EN%\e..-..- TOMBED. • HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. (FES PEES- ASSOCIATION.] / Beoatved July IBth, L 45 p_n. 1..;".... Capetown, July 13. A big fire took place at the entt_nce of the De Beer's Mine at Kiottberley. Eight hundred miners *•» entombed, and it is feared 500 jtfrre perished. , Bee*, red July 19th. 1-30 __». "•■'■ Capbtown, July 13. " "The accident in the De Beer's, Kimierky.'waa caused by ignition in the i&tl(* preventing men working in the .tuna from getting out, and many were iiij_be«ted by the smoke.
.: Jft>i*ty-t , hree white men and 500 -tatives were rescued.
' The damage ia estimated at £20,000. 1 A quantity of dynamite was ex__9ded in the mine, in order to clear Jhe galleries from the dead.
~ .. -. Becei-edJu*ylfl_i.llpj_. Capetown, July 15. "The fires in De Beer's mine are still turning,-and all hopes of any others being* reecued has been abandoned. Received Jnly 20t_, 1.30 aan. Cap-town, July 13. f_fc'i_ believed that the fatalities by the fire at De Beer's mine amount to £24,-of- which twenty-four are white men.
A MINE ON FIRE.
Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7123, 20 July 1888, Page 5
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