STORY UNTOLD
COLLIERY DISASTER
SOLE SURVIVOR DIES
(Received August 12, 2 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. The sole'survivor of the Wharncliff* colliery disaster died with the story of the fateful minute untold. - It was reported on.Friday that after an explosion at the WharncliSe Woodmoor Colliery, hear Sheffield, 58 miners were entombed. It was known that 21 were killed. Only one man * had been rescued. He was severely burnt. Hope of recovering the other men had been practically abandoned. A terrific fire followed the explosion^ -
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Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 10
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83STORY UNTOLD Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 10
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