EXPLOSION IN MINE.
SIX HUNDRED MEN ENTOMBED. TEAKS THAT THREE HUNDRED HAVE PERISHED, FATAL ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE. SURVIVORS ESCAPE BY OUTLET FIVE MILES AWAY, By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. NEW \OKK, July 11. An explosion of a must serious nature is reported uom Johnstown, m Pennsylvania, Ihe explosion occurred at the Cam--1)1 ia Steel Company's Rolling Mills Colliery, As a result six hundred men were entombed. It is feared that as many as three hundred have perished. The foreman of the mine and his assistant and two lire bosses have perished. They lost their lives in attempting tu rescue some of the entombed men. The entrance to the mine was rendered impassable by the explosion^ A number managed to escape from the mincj The survivors effected their escape by an opening live miles away.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 471, 12 July 1902, Page 2
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