COLLIERY DISASTER.
NO HOPE FOR ENTOMBED MEN. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. A terrible colliery disaster occurred at Maltbyinam, near Rotlieram. Tho management and miners had, for several weeks, been fighting the gas fires, concerning which a question was asked in Parliament on Thursday,* when" Major G. R. Lane-Fox replied that his ispeetors were alive to the situation. An explosion occurred on Saturday morning when one hundred men were in the pit. They were not getting coal but were engaged in sealing the danger zone. Some reached tho shaft and es-
caped. One mutilated body has been found and thirty-seven men are entombed. The manager of the colierv stated at mid-night:—“ There is not the slightest hope that anyone in the pit is alive. They must ho dead, and nothing more can be done.” The explosion caused very heavy falls of stone, cutting off escape.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1923, Page 2
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154COLLIERY DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1923, Page 2
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