NO HOPE OF RESCUE.
LIFE LOSS, 133.
EXCITED PROTEST MEETING AT WHITEHAVEN. ORPHANS NUMBER 250. By Telefirr&ph —Press Association —Copyright. London, May 13. There is dismay at Whitehaven. because of tho decision of Burl Lonsdale (the.. owner) to brick up tho Wellington pit, where 133 men are entombed at a point beneath the sea, inaccessible to rescuers owing to a raging fire, and noxious gases. The fire has driven the rescuers away. Their lamps repeatedly exploded. It will be a considerable time before it will be-possible to recover the bodies of those entombed. The Earl of Lonsdale has given .£IOOO to a relief fnnd which has been started at Whitohaven.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 818, 16 May 1910, Page 5
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110NO HOPE OF RESCUE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 818, 16 May 1910, Page 5
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