WALES COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
[Australian A; N.Z. Cable Association. A PAINFUL INCIDENT. LONDON, March :5. The “Daily Herald.” the Labour paper, in an editorial, describes the anti-Baldwin demonstration at Cwrn Vale as “a pfiiuful incident.” The motives of Air Baldwin and his wife in ; and human, it says, and their personal sorrow was manifest and evident, but to the people of Cwm the present was linked with the past, 'and the Prime Minister's part in the great lock-nut was remembered. Hence the outburst of feeling, HEAPS OF DEAD. LONDON. March 3. As the result of yesterday's work at the Owin' Colliery, the rescuers broke through the Black Vein fall. They recovered nineteen bodies. The opening rip of this section released poisonous gasses, thereby threatening the whole pit with them, hut the resellers were in gas masks, and by crawling on their hands and knees they readied huddled heaps of dead bodies which they hope to bring to the surface early this morning. Ten more bodies yet remain to be accounted for.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1927, Page 3
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170WALES COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1927, Page 3
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