COLLIERY DISASTER
30 -CASUALTIES. [United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] j LONDON, February 27. The 1 roar of an explosion, which heard afar, sent hundreds of women folk hurrying to the pit bead at Havelock in Lancashire. Rescuers found flames shooting along the colliery galleries, which were filled with fumes causing the men inside to f-ollnp.se. Five miners were killed and twenty-five were badly burned. In I lie Haydoek mine explosion two women doctors accompanied the rescuers into the blazing pit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1930, Page 6
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80COLLIERY DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1930, Page 6
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