COLLIERY TRAGEDY IN YORKSHIRE
ELEVEN LIVES LOST. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyriEht London, May 31. By a gas explosion at the Silkstono Colliery, at Wharncliffe, Yorkshire, 11 men wero killed. The rescuers,. after three hours' dangerous work, brought men who wero overcome by the gas fumes to the surface, but they nearly all succumbed. The news caused tho breaking up of crickot and other sports, and there-was i wild stampede to the' pithead. A GREAT FLAME. (Rec. Juno 2, 0.5 a.m.) London, June 1. Haycock, ono of tho survivors of the Wharnclitfo colliery, explosion, states that he was boring with others in a by-way, when the noise of a mTglity wind was- heard. Ho was carricd into tho mainway, and badly'stunned. A groat flame rushed i by, scorching his face. His clothes wero ablaze, but he extinguished the fire, and crawled along tho bottom, and communicated with tho officials. Tho. rescuers found the others to have been suffocated by the after-damp. Tho pit was regarded as tho safest in Yorkshire.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2165, 2 June 1914, Page 5
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168COLLIERY TRAGEDY IN YORKSHIRE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2165, 2 June 1914, Page 5
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