WELSH COLLIERIES DIFFICULTY.
A BRUTAL OUTRAGE.
HORSES KILLED AND MAIMED.
United Press Association —Copyright
LONDON, August 18.
A number of pit ponies belonging to Powell, Duffin and Coy. were put in a field at Newbridge, Monmouth, owing to the stoppage of the collieries. Two have been discovered stabbed to the heart, and five are suffering from gashes in the neck and body.
SUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCES
EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN COAL CARGOES.
(Received August 19, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 19.
A tin canister containing six fourounce packets of gunpowder, used for blasting purposes in the collieries, was discovered a few days ago in a cargo of Welsh coal unloading from the collieries into the steamer Jumna, moored in the Medway, and were supposed to have fallen acidentally among the coal at the mine.
While the cruiser Duke of Erinborough was coaling at Spithead yesterday from a South Wales collier, after a small quantity of coal had geen taken into- her bunkers three mining cartridges wore discovered. A careful investigation has been ordered. Both steamers loaded at Penarth, but tho cargoes were from different collieries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2585, 20 August 1909, Page 5
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181WELSH COLLIERIES DIFFICULTY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2585, 20 August 1909, Page 5
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