Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1930, Page 11

1 1 2 DF, & MISSNG INMINE EPLOSON Blast of Unknown Origin Wrecks Stope in British Columbia. By the Associnted Press. PRINCETON, British Columbia, August 14.—Two miners are known to have been killed by an explosion which en- tombed 46 others in the Blakeburn coal mine of the Coalmont Ccliiers, Ltd.. near here last night. One miner was rescued by crews which recovered the bodies, tentatively identi- | fied as those of Albert Coal and Reid Smith, Rescue crews in their strenuous efforts to rescue the entombed miners rapidly dug through 300 feet of debris in & tunnel to a point where a cave-in block- ed the passage, imprisoning the 46 men. The two bodies and the unidentified miner rescued alive were found just be- fore the cave-in was reached. The cause of the explosion was not known. The Blakeburn Mine is located about 6 miles from Coalmont on the Kettle Valley line of the Canadian Pacific 50 miles east of Vancouver ‘The mine is not a deep one, being work- ed by a series of stopes. It is in a re- mote re | COLLISION VICTIM'S ; BACK MAY BE BROKEN| William D. Williams, 43, Taken to Casualty Hospital After Acci- dent—Woman Also Injured. William D. Williams, 43 years old, of 712 Eighth street southeast, suffered a possible fracture of the back today when an automobile he was driving collided | at Seventh street and Massachusetts avenue northeast with a car operated | by William G. Jones, colored, 35, of 16 G street Williams was removed to Casualty Hospital and placed unhder the care of staff physicians. Ethel Simms, colored, 41 years old, 313 Seventh street south- east, was treated for lacerations of the | knees and left hand. She was riding in the machine driven by Jones. | Receives Commission. Victor L. Billings, 2415 E street, this | city, has been commissioned by the War Department, & second lleutenant of En- gineers in the Reserve Corps of the | (THEQOs B.R) ( \ The World’s Fair i TAXI PASSENGERS'ROB UNSUSPECTING FARE | = Pistol Is Brandisied in Hold-up That Nets Robbeérs s1950. § 1} John Brooks, colored, residing near | : Lanham, Md, and em| District Waste Paper Co., Mount Olivet road and Montello avenue, employed a colored taxicab driver in South Wash- ington last night about 8 o'clock to drive him to Fifteenth northeast, where two other eolored pas- | sengers were taken. yed by the | : s id H streets | :- The driver ccntinued to's point near | 3 Brooks' place of employment a stopped, and Brooks later told the police | : d that one of the men in the gar display & pistol and robbed him ®f $19.50 a a District automobile driver’s permit. He furnished police descriptions of the men. Benjamin Picano, taxicab driver, re- siding at 1113 Thirteenth ptreet, related | X two fares, one white amd the other colored, last night. | to the police an experience he had with | 3 Picano was employed by the two men | & at Rock Oreek Church road and Georgia | 3 avenue about 10 o'clock to- take them | 3 for a drive. Several s were made before the vehicle % Soldiers’ Home grounds, where the driver was held up by the fares and gobbed. They took $8 from him. X —ad DIAMONDS ARE'LOOT OF HOUSEBREAKERS |: Loss of Jewelry and Other Personal Property Reported in Series of Thefts. Theft of jewelry and property valued | 3 at several hundred dollars is reported to police in a series of fecent house- breaking cases. ‘The home of Isabelie Oberry, 504 G street northeast, was enitered yesterday during the absence ©of the occupants, and wearing apparel and jewelry valued | 2 at $52 was stolen. Some of the property | 32 belonged to Carlotta Wilson of Fair Grove, Mich., a guest. | gained through a wi ; Theft of a solitairé,dfamond ring, val- ued at $100, from the kitchen of her home was reported to police yesterday biv Minnie S. Byars of 2210 Flagler ace. . A duplicate key worker was in evi- | dence in the apartment of Carolyn Mil- ler, 1133 Thirteenth try had been | & street, yesterday. ‘Wearing apparel vflw at $64.45 was |2 stolen, John K. Preiot, 57 Observal cire! reported the loss of & diamond hor: shoe stickpin, wrist watch and an antique ring set with sapphires and pearls. The jewelry disappeared from his home the past three weeks. T HE World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893 “introduced a new note in American manners.” The introdue- tion of Browning & Baines Orienta Coffee. in 1896 created a mew note in coffee flavor that has steadily ascended the: scale of popularity. To-| day Orienta is the coffee choice .of the Nation’s | Capital. 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