COLLIERY DISASTER.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
ABOUT TWELVE HUNDRED MINERS PERISH.
GALLERIES BECOME VAST FURNACE.
By telegraph, Press Aas’xi, Copyrlgh R:oeivod 12,45 a m., March 12.
Paris, March 11. A fire which occurred in depots ali bovou hundred fort led to a terrific explosion in tho Oourr ors minoe, Franoc, at Boven on Saturday morning. Tho oages wore destroyed. POISONOUS FUMES. The cuttings beonmo filled with poisonous fumes.
A VAST FURNACE Three galleries became a vast furnace of flames, whioh wore looping from the pik’d mouths. Seventeen hundred and ninety-five miners were buried. Four hundred wore resoued. THE DEATH LIST. Tho latest ostimate of the number of deaths is oiovoa hundred and ninetythree. AGONISING SCENES. Agonising scenes were witnessed at the pit’s bonds among women friends of the entombed miners.
RESCUE WORK ABANDONED,
When the nows spread that the gab leries were oaving in, further attempts al rescue wore abandoned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1695, 12 March 1906, Page 2
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148COLLIERY DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1695, 12 March 1906, Page 2
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