COLLIERY DISASTER.
MANY LIVES LOSTi MESS ASSOCIATION’—COPYRIGHT London, Oat. 15. An explosion has occurred at Wingate colliery, Darham. Twenty.seven bodies have been reoovered, and thirty miners were rescued alive. It is feared many are still entombed. Reoeiyed 10 56 p.m., Oct, 16. London, October 16, The explosion at the Wingate colliery waa heard four miles. The victims arc stoaemen and shifters, who were preparing tho workings for hewers.
OwiDg to the resone of some reported io be dead, the death-roll is now twenty'cur,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1907, 17 October 1906, Page 2
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83COLLIERY DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1907, 17 October 1906, Page 2
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