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IUBTKALIAN AND N.Z. LADLK ASSOCIATION. DORTMUND ALINE EXPLOSION. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) BERLIN, February 12. The Dortmund mine explosion was due to fire damp. It killed outright thirty-seven coal miners, whose bodios were filing twenty yards. They were scorched and injured beyond recognition. The rescuers, echo worked all night long cutting shafts, found messages chalked on the walls, hut there was no trace of the writers. The official estimate of the death roll is 138. Frantic women and children clamoured at Hie pithead for news of relatives and threatened to lynch the directors when they ordered the suppression of the bulletin. BERLIN. February 12. The explosion, which was most violent, caused the shafts and galleries to collapse, blocking the exits. Rescue work is proceeding under the greatest difficulties.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1925, Page 3
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