(words on extreme top left illegible) John tried having ....... daily .......state. ...............the mine at 11 o,clock on Tuesday evening. Informed about your......in .........level,a portion of them being in Martin's ......... was full of smoke and there ........then heard some of the men coughing ......+ throwing it on the loader cage Around as they thought the fire near them, they worked at it for about an hour when they found out they ..........at....... the fire.......to be ........ Fearing they could not approach it owing to the smoke + coal falling