Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE. [ARTICLE]

AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

A dispatch from Capetown, ‘ l Africa, says that thd Debeers coal mine at Kimberly, caught fire Thursday evening. Eight hundred men are entombed. The work of rescue, - which began at once, But it is believed that five hundred persons have perished, including Mr. Lindsay, the manager of the company. Many of the victims imprisoned iH the miners are -whitepeople. |