COLLIERY TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND
PATHETIC SCENES AT THE PITHEAD. London, , January 13. There were distressing scenis at tho pithead at Halmerend. as parents, wives, and children of the imprisoned men anxiously awaited news. Tho rescue parties worked unceasingly, but numerous falls hampered their operations. They brought up eleven men suffering slightly from gas poisoning, and also six dead. Hopes of recovering the 130 men who are still ejitombed began to disappear at midnight, but the rescuor.s did not slacken their elforts. There is no shortage of volun-teers—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FR.Um>E&slvisCOE WORK. (Rec. January 14, 8.5 p.m.) London, January 13. Fruitless rescue work was continued all day and all night .at Halmerend. Twenty-five dead bodies have ieen recovered. The-roads leading to tbe workings whore the:remainder of the men are entombed are all blocked. Iwnortß declare that it » unlikely that ■ any of them are Cable Assn. :
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 95, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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144COLLIERY TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 95, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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