MINING DISASTERS.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. 123 KILLED IN ENGLAND. FRAGMENT OF STONE CAUSES 39 PEOPLE TO PERISH. Bft totegranU, Pres* Ass'n, Copyright Received 11,31 p,tn., July 12. London, July 12. An oxplosion in No. 2 pit of tha Uuitod Notional oolleriee, Wattotown, Glamorgonehiie, killed 123, Two of the othors who woro rescued succumbed. Eight hundrod workers in No. 1 mino wero rescued uninjured, though oven horo the oflocts of the explosion damaged the guido ropoe and delayed the rescuers proceeding to No- 2, which wps found to bo filled with foul air. Sovonty bodies worn recovered,including that of the manager, Mr Meredith. Berlin, July 12. A fragment of storm falling overturned a petroloum lamp, which fired a Borrnsin mine at Dortmund, entombing 39, whose rescue is impossible.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 2
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128MINING DISASTERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1505, 13 July 1905, Page 2
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