CHANCE OF SURVIVAL VERY REMOTE
Received Sunday, 9.6 p.m. LONDON, August 17. An official statement issued at Whitehaven Colliery early today said 15 bodies had been brought to the surface. There was still one part of the i workings whieh had not yet been fully explored. A Coal Board official said the possi bility of anyone being alive in the unexplored section was very remote. Seventy-five percent. of the miners eome from two districts — the paiish oi St. James and tlie suburb of Moresby.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 August 1947, Page 5
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