Fire In An Iowa Mine

What Cheer. Ia., Ang. 26. - About 4:30 Saturday at'ternoon the top works and building of the What Cheer coal shatt took lire ín the boiler room and in a few minutes was in a maas of tlames The shaft was putting out about 1,UÜO tona of coal per monto. About '.IX) men were in the bank at the time. but all escaped by way of the air shafts. Thirteen out of the iifteen mulea in the mine were euffocated Total loss, 150,000; insurance, }12,(KW.