COLLIERY DISASTER
24 MINERS KILLED
i United Press Association.—By Electric <■ Telegraph.—Copyright.)
BERLIN, July 30.
A mining catastrophe at Wnldenburg, in lower Silesia, killed 24, and it is feared 12 others will not recover.
Firedamp suddenly broke out like a hail of fire and .spread through a shaft 1350 feet below the ground. Twelve of those who escaped were shockingly burnt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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