FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
MINERS ENTOMBED.' ONE HUNDRED AND TEN LIVES A LOST. United Press Association, Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 17. A disastrous colliery explosion is reported. It occurred in the West Stanley pit, Durham. One hundred and forty men were entombed. A tongue of flame destroyed the shafting, and left the entombed miners without means of egress. . The sound of rapping has since been heard, suggesting that the men who were at work iivone of the four seams are still alive/ There were 147 miners entombed by the explosion in the West Stanley colliery. Of that number 37 persons have been rescued. It is feared that tbe 110 remaining miners have perished. / The majority of the survivors were Saved through remaining In m by-way until the noxious gases had cleared . •• Many bodies have been found. They were badly burned and mutilated.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2430, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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140FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2430, 19 February 1909, Page 5
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