CAUSE NOT KNOWN
MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY
fßrltfjsli Official Wireless.) (Received August 7, 10.50 a.m.)
RUGBY, August 6. The cause of the accident at th». Woodmoor mine is still unknown.
The injured man who was brought to the surface is too seriously hurt to give an account of what, happened. He was found three-quarters of a mile from where the explosion occurred, and his injuries indicate its terrific force. One of the doctors assisting the rescue parties which have been cutting their way through falls of the roof in order to get into the, affected area, on returning to the surface this afternoon, said that many of the bodies they had found were terribly injured, and these men must have been killed by the violence of the explosion. Attitudes of others suggested suffocation by gas. ■ ... . ■•
Captain Crookshank, Secretary tor Mines, arrived during, the afternoon at the pithead, where all day a crowd of over 2000 has waited anxiously for news from below. The vicar of the parish conducted prayers.
This evening the Prime Minister telegraphed a- message of sympathy to the "families and friends of those who have so tragically lost their, lives/
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 9
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192CAUSE NOT KNOWN Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 9
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