COLLIERY DISASTER
FORTY-SIX ENTOMBED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
VANCOUVER', Aug. 14
A message from Coalmoni, British .GMiunbia, states that the rescuers have been for twenty hours trying to got through the falls of rock at the Blackburn coal mine, where an explosion occurred on. Wednesday morning, entombing 40 miners and k'fling two outright. ( The efforts of the rescuers have been unsuccessful, and consequently the plight of the bu-ty-six entombed miners, if they are not already dead, is regarded as g.v e. No signal has been iw-ird Gout the men: sne© the explosion. Their exact location is unknown.
HOPE GIVEN UP
VANCOUVER. Aug. M
A later message from Coalmont states that practically all hope has been given up for the men entombed in the Blakeburn mine. This brings the total deaths to fortyeight. The rescuers are working m short relays, and they come-out reeking witlr semi-poisoned gas, thus cid'cating that there is little chance foi the survivors.
Thirty of the rescuers, have l ecu knocked out. It may lw two days, or a week, before the i'opns; cl men are reached. Eighteen ot them are married.
In three cases brothers have been lost.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1930, Page 5
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