Brave Rescuers Defy Deadly Fumes
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Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. LUNDUN, August 23. Nineteen miners-were killed by an explosion at midnight iu the Morrison North pit at Annfield Plain, County Durham. Fjve men were admitted to hosgital suffering fiom severe burns, The pit is oue of the oldest in the district, An intense underground fire which started in 1926 flared up again in 1943 and workings which were sealed off because of the fire were reelaimed a few months ago. The rescuers toiled 450 feet below and' about threequarters of a roile from the bottom of the shaft Pitmen who escaped the foree of the explosion which brought heavy falls from the roof helped the rescuers. The five men who are in hospital owe their lives to the prompt action of five of their colleagues who braved the deadly after-effects of the blast to bring them to safety. One rescuer said? ''We felt the hot blast, mostly dust, then acrid fumes. We dashed 200 to 300 yards and got ten men to the bottom of the shaft where there was fresh air, but only five were alive. " A loug procession of sad-facod men and weeping women passed th rough the ambulance room at the mine which is a temporary mortuarv for the bodies of the nineteen yictims.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 August 1947, Page 5
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