MINING DISASTER.
ENORMOUS EXTENT. ALREADY 71 BODIES FOUND. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIONS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 6. A mining disaster is reported, but details as to the locality have not arrived. The exhumed dead now total seventy one and the rescued living thirty three, all of whom are dangerously ill through gas poisoning. Tile disaster is assuming proportions which will probably make it one of the worst iii tlie history of American coal mining. Nearly all of the entombed men are married. Their families are crowding the neighbourhood of the mine, and offer a pitiable spectacle. The work of rescue although speedily organised, was hampered by a broken air fan, which took hours to repair before a draft of the necessary air could lie sent into the mines cavern. Rescuers were commandeered from dozens of neighbouring towns and were compelled to work in shifts of a few minutes, due to th<f presence of vast quantities of poisonous gas.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1922, Page 2
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164MINING DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1922, Page 2
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