MINE EXPLOSION
colliery disaster. iynited Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.] i!i; BERLIN, July 9 There are fifty dead as the result of the 'Hansdorf Colliery disaster. , london, July 10. yi Hansdorf . advices state that sixty- ‘ seven miners’ .bodies have been recovered at, the ill-fated colliery, and ■forty-eight miners have been brought to the surface suffering from poisoning j These have been sent to the Hpsjoital. There are 73 miners still underground, and there is but little hope of saving them. '. After the explosion, clouds of poisonous. coal dust swept through the passages of the mine. !l,i Scores of men were caught by the choking fumes, and they collapsed and ‘died . on the spot. —'/Hundreds of weeping women and ‘children crowded to the pithead, at Which there were heartrending scenes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1930, Page 5
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129MINE EXPLOSION Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1930, Page 5
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