A TERRIBLE STORY.
MEN ALLOWED TO DIE.
By telegraph, Pres« Aet’n, CopyUg* 1
. Paris, April 1. ' A live horse was found io the seoofc pit at Courrieres, in addition to the bodiet, of several miners who had only been dead a day.
Ls Matin violently attacks the.engineerg for their negligenoe in not exploring tbe galleries, and suggests that they are responsible for the death of all those not killed by firedamp. Two hundred and fifty miners and en« gineers are now exploring, but the work is exhausting owing to the noxious gas.
FRENCH DECORATIONS
By telegraph, Press Asa’n, Copyright
Reoeived 9.31 p.m., April 2,
Paris, Aptil 2. M. Barthon, Minister for' Works, opnferred tho Cross of the Legion of Honor on Nemy and Pruvost, the leading surviving miners, and gold medals on eleven others. He oonfers tbe decoration of the Chevalier Legion on the chief of the German salvage corps who took part in the operations, and gold medals on the regi of the corps.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1714, 3 April 1906, Page 2
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165A TERRIBLE STORY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1714, 3 April 1906, Page 2
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