TRAPPED BY FIRE.
DIFFICULT RESCUE 'WORK FROM MINE. (N.Z. and Aust. Press Assn, and Sun.) OTTAWA. Feb. 10. A message frouv Sudbury (Ontario) states that 17 men, trapped, by a fire in the Bollinger gold mine, are believed dead. 'Two bodies have been recovered. Smoke is halting the rescue work. The blaze was caused by spontaneous combustion in an abandoned a\orkiug. (Received February 12, <3.5 p.ln.) VANCOUVER. Feb. 11. ■Seven miners were taken alive from the gas-tilled Jewels of the Holliuger gold mine at North Bay, and there is' still hope that the remaining forty men may be saved by the morning. Two relief trains, carrying gas masks,
broke all speed records from Toronto to Timmins, j\. distance of 152 miles.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 5
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