PHANTOM MINER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 7

PHANTOM MINER.

0 BECKONS THE RESCUERS. IMPRESSIONABLE WELSH PEOPLE; By Teloeraph—Press Association-Copyright "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. ' London, October 17. Weird stories have been circulated and credited by tho impressionable Welsh pooplo in connection with tho colliery disaster. Ono is that a phantom minor beckons the rescuers, pointing as '■ thougfa to others equally ghostly. Over 205 widows and 390 children are dependent on tho missing A woman whoso husband and son are 1 entombed has given birth to her twelfth child. THE FIRE MASTERED. RESCUERS' NARROW ESCAPES. London, October 17. Tho fire at tho Senghenydd Mine has been mastered,_ and tho ventilation of tho mine has improved. There wero many narrow escapes. Several of tho rescuers wero overcome by fumes and heat, and had to bo ar- , tificially restored.

RESCUERS' CLORIOUS PLUCK. IN DANGER EVERY MOMENT. London, October 18. Tho display of heroism in connection with tho Senghenydd Colli&ry disaster was of the finest description. Mr. . "Clem" Edwards, M.P. tor Glamorganshire, who visited tho fighters, says: "Wo crept on hands and knees over ; tho smouldoring debris in terribly oppressive heat, and under a roof, which was crumbling and falling, and found men pegging away in twenty-minuto , turns. Whilo pouring water on tho , flames they stooped or lay near smoul- , dering heaps through which fumes wero rising with heat sufficient to burn tho , clothes and boots. F ; very moment they were in danger of being crushed by tho falling roof, while tho gradually gathering gas threatened another explosion. Yet they worked on with glorious pluck. Nine out of ten wero overcomo by the gas, but ns.they recovered they return- ; ed to tho .fighting lino. Thoir reports : wore fruitful, and they hope to explore tho distant workings on'|Saturday." Three bodies were recovered in the Etable behind tho fall. Tho explorers, on reaching tho stables, < encountered a sudden outburst of smoko, which caused them to retreat to tho shaft three-quarters of a milo distant. ■ They discovered that the outburst was duo to tho temporary cessation of the ■ efforts to extinguish tho fire while additional water pipos wero being installed, i Four decomposed bodies wero removed ( to-day. NEW ZEALAND'S SYMPATHY. On Saturday tho Hon. W. F. Massey | (Primo Minister) requested His Excellency tho Governor to transmit through , the "Secretary of Stato for tho Colonies 1 an expression of tho sympathy felt by tlio Government and peoplo of New Zoaland for the bereaved relatives of tho victims in tho Sengenydd' colliery disaster.