Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1928, Page 54

.54 PERU MINE FLOOD ENDS LIVES OF 27 .American’ /gmong _Victims. 13 Men Entombed in An- other Are Rescued. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, December 7.—The death | toll that resuited from the flooding of a gallery in the Campana mine, near the Andean mining: city of Morococha | was estimated by the ministry of public - works to be 27. | Thirtcen men entombed in the Ale- | Jandria mine were rescued. Capt. McGregor, an American engi- meer, was among those listed as having been drowned in the flooded mine. The others were a foreman and 25 workers. The disaster occurred, an official statement said, when water leaked through from San Francisco Pond at | the mine into the mine shaft. | Twelve men and a foreman were en- | tombed in the-other mine, but were rescued after many hours” work. The | assistant secretary of public works went to the scene. - The mine is one of those o\\m’% by | the Cerro Pasto Copper: Corporal All of the mines in the vicinity are coti= | nected by galleries. Most of them are | deep and pumps are required to keep them free of water. As soon as the disaster in the Campana, mine was known workers in each of the other shafts were ordered to the surface. It was believed that tunneling” be- | neath the bed of the San- Prancisco Pond, which is about three square miles in area, weakened the lake bottom and | | | th | e S Ml Iheivto England, but a destroyer imme- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. PRINCE'S RUSH TO KING'S BEDSIDE PARALLELS GRAND UNCLE SIN 1910 Duke of Connaught in Afrlca When Edward VII Was Strlckenq Got Word of Death By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 7.—A parallel | to the dramatic rush of the Prince of | Wales back from Africa to the bedside | of ‘his royal father occurred at the death of George V'’ s father, Edward VII, in 1910. ‘The former ng: brother, the Duke of Connaught, together with the | Duchess of Connaught, who was for- merly Princess Louise of Prussia, was tour similar to that engaged in just re- cently by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester. When Edward VII became seriously ill a cablegram was sent the duke. The King's brother, however, had an ad- vantage on the Prince of Wales, in that he had already started to return to England. - He had reached the coast, and immediately took ship for England. Traveling by steamship in those days ‘was practically as fast as it is today. Bat Edward VII's fight against his se- | vere attack of bronchitis was quickly | |over. The Duke of Connaught had just reached Suez when a telegram reached him saying that the King was dead. | . The duke arrived in London May 13, exactly a week after his brother died. He. got back in time for' the funeral, however, and was the representative of | the royal family to welcome Emperor | William of Germany and Theodore | Roosevelt. | ‘The ke of Connaught, who is still in SUCZ. years later. He refused the.throne of | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Germany. Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, was likewise away when her hus- |band became ill, but returned before his death. She was on her way back from a Mediterranean tour, and had reached | Calais when news came that Edware was dangerously {ll. A furious stori was raging in the channel, which pre. vented the royal yacht from bringing diately took her aboard and conveyed | her across. She reached London only a | day before Edward's death. i e TREATING CUTS COST. Fence Posts Can Be Made to Last Longer. AMES, Jowa (#)—Iowa's annual fence post bill of from $6,000,000 to | $8.000,000 can be cut in half simply by giving the posts a chemical treat- nt, specialists at Iowa State College say. Almost any wood on the farm, even willow and cottonwood, they explain, can be made into a post that will last at-least 10 to 15 years by an ordinary home treatment. from the practice of railroad com- panies, which have doubled the life of their cross-ties. | gallon, ‘The lesson is drawn | SCALLOP TRADE EXPANDS Business in Bay of Fundy Grows ‘With Increased Demand. HALIFAX, N. S. (#).—Sixty modern scallop draggers representing an outlay of more than $250,000 are operating in the Bay of Pundy scallop fishery this Winter. Five years ago there was but one small boat dragging for these shellfish in Digby Basin. Today every port in Digby and Annapolis Counties is represented at the beds. American markets are paying $6 a the highest price in three vears. 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