VIRGINIA MINE DISASTER
RESCUERS ABANDON ALL HOPE
170 LIVES LOST By Tolecrash.— Pross Association-CoDyriKut New York, April 29. After all hope of rescuing the 203 miners entombed at tlio Now Rivor Colliery Company's mine' at Becklpy, West ■Virginia, as the result of an explosion, had been abandoned, the (lames continually driving tack tlio rescuers, sixtyseven men wore rescued alive. One. hundred and seventy are stil! entombed behind the flames., The mino authorities do 2101 lioliovc tliero is a singlo chance of these being rescued. ' ' Eight dead bodies have been found.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 7
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90VIRGINIA MINE DISASTER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 7
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