COLLIERY TRAGEDY
TEN WORKERS ENTOMBED. (United Press Association--By Electru Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this dav at 10 a.m.) LO.njjON, November 1. An entire gang of ten working at Bohill Colliery, Lochgelly, Fifslffre, were killed in an explosion.' Scores of miners rushed up from and worked desperately to reach their comrades but were continually driven back by gas fumes. Wives and mothers waited anxiously at the pithead for ten hours. Hope is abandoned though efforts arc still being made to recover the bodies. Seventy-three have been killed and thirty-live in ured.in British colliery accidents during 1931. ■,
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 5
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93COLLIERY TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 5
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