TERRIBLE DISASTER.
« EXPLOSION AND FIRE. [ CAGES JAMMED AND HUNDREDS • ' IMPRISONED. RESCUE WORK PROCEEDING ! By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. , London, December 21. t An explosion occurred in the Pretoria I colliery at Bolton, Lancashire, causing J tho cages to become jammed and the ventilation seriously interrupted. , Fire is raging in the pit, and it is ; feared that few will be saved. The explosion occurred at eight o'clock in the morning. It shook the neighbourhood, and was heard for three miles. Owing to tho fire, the rescue parties descended the Arley pit, adjoining. They found' soven living men, and ten dead. They were unable to proceed. Four hundred and forty men in the . Arley pit wero also rescued. Many wore suffering from gas poison. At eleven o'clock canaries were lowered into the Pretoria pit, and wero recovered' » alive. Rescuers thereupon descended, * wearing patent helmets. They found tho " roofs fallen, and wero unable to reach tho scene of tho. explosion, but extinguished i tho firo for a distance of fifty yards. Three hundred and fifty miners aro still • imprisoned.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 5
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174TERRIBLE DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 5
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