BRITISH COLLIERY
58 MEN ENTOMBED
AT LEAST 21 DEAD
United Press Association—By Electric Tel* ' craph—Copyright. '' . (.Received August 7, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 6. After an explosion at the YVharnclifTe Woodmoor Colliery, near Sheffield, 58 miners were entombed. It is known that 21 were killed... Only one man has as yet been rescued. He was severely burnt. Hope of recovering the other men has been practically abandoned. A terrific fire followed the explosion. Rescuers who worked heroically to reach the entombed men were hampered by gas and continual falls of rock. They found three bodies. Despite their proximity to the fire, air sweeping through the workings, was so cold that the rescuers were wrapped in blankets to enable them to continue their efforts. Hundreds of anxious relatives gathered in the rain at the pithead, praying. A doctor who went down the pit says there is little hope of any of the men being rescued.
Some of the men were killed by the violence of the explosion, and tha bodies of others were in attitudes suggesting suffocation. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 9
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175BRITISH COLLIERY Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 9
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