Nine Die In Mine Train Crash

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30977, 5 February 1966, Page 7

Nine Die In Mine Train Crash

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

LONDON, Feb. 4.

Rescuers scrambled through two miles of underground tunnels today to reach the scene of a coalmine disaster in which nine men were killed and 22 others injured. Two “paddy trains,” used

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to transport men through the labrynth of the mine half a mile below the surface collided in the Silverwood colliery near the Yorkshire town of Rotherham. One of the trains, with about 40 day-shift workers aboard slowed down at a junction of the line. The locomotive of another “paddy train”—which was following- it—collided with its rear carriage. .One of the injured. Jack Nettleship, aged 53, has had both legs amputated. Alarm Given An alarm was put out moments after the two “paddy trains” collided and rescue teams went to the scene. One of the rescuers, a nursing sister, Miss Diane Adsetts, said: “There were so many men lying around that it was hard to decide who to attend to first. “ft got one man who was verf seriously injured and gave him a shot of morphia." Sister Adsetts was with the first people on the scene. They had to scramble through two miles of tunnels to reach the accident—and then carry the dead and injured back again. An official inquiry into the disaster has begun.