TO-DAY'S CABLES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 51, 13 March 1906, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

LATER PARTICULARS. CAUSES OF THE EXPLOSION, THE RESCUE WQJB K.. DEEDS OJ> HEROISM, (Received March 13, 8.24 a m „ T PARIS March 12. Mr Loon, the chief engineer at the mine, declares that the fire occurred in tho adjoining pit on Wednesday. Walfe were built in order to extinguish the flames, but it was possible that some fissure remained, admitting the products of contribution i&so the other pits forming an explosive mixture which came into contact with the miners' naked lights. Fire-damp had heretofore been, unknown in the mine. Batches of victims were rescued' untQ the fa!!« of earth suspended work. Many, deeds of heroism are recorded. One explorer descended fourteen times s bringing up a body on each occasion. On the fifteenth journey he, succumbed near the foot of the shaft Of sixty bodies rocoverp_^ihTrty-__v& — been identified., -it others are unrecognisanie ; 6 Though signals wore heard in one of the galleries yesterday they ceased in the afternoon. It is hoped that some of the ontombed may still be rescued alive, as two living horses have heett found in the vicinity: A. great number of co .ps*s, headless and blackened to cinders, are lying in heaps on a battlefield. One woman lost four sons and all _er brothers. The entire Press of Europe and America express deep sympathy with France in the disaster,