COLLIERY EXPLOSION
UNDER THE SEA.
ANOTHER WHITEHAVEN DISASTER.
United Press Association—By FJectrii Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, January 30
The tragic undersea colliery at Whitehaven known as “Haig Fit” was the scene of another serious explosion last night, eio.se to the spot two miles under the sea, where thirteen were killed in an explosion in 1928. Two hundred miners were working below when a concrete stopping wall, sealing off an old section, was blown out, thus tilling the neighbouring section with gas and wreckage. The majority of the men escaped from the pit. The rescuers had the greatest difficulty in lighting the tire damp in order to roach the remainder.
Doc tors descended the mine equipped with a special apparatus, and attended to the gassed men. Thirty-two badly affected miners were brought to the surface, a number of them being sent to the hospital. Eight dead have been brought out. Twenty moil reiiniiti unaccounted for.
It is feared that there is little hope that they are alive, Between three and four thousand men and women were stiff waiting at the pit head at midnight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1931, Page 5
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