FIFTEEN BEAD
DISASTER IN MINE
HEROISM MARKS RESCUE WORK
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this clay at 9.16 .a.m.)
LONDON, November 19
An explosion duo to fire damp occurred in the Grassmoor Colliery at Chesterfield. Fifteen are dead.
Heroism marked the rescues
The first men. to reach the pithead descended immediately without gasmasks- The air below, perhaps owing to the operation of the compressed air Wen til at ion pipe, seemed dear. One of the victims was found kneeling with a .pickaxe raised above his head. Nearly all the deaths were instantaneous.
One survivor said the explosion was like a.drum boom, followed by a flash of dense mist. It was impossible to breathe. He saw his brother crawl past him .'and then fall dead.
The disaster is inexplicable. It is the first in forty years. No shots were (fired, and there was no fall of coal. 'Conditions in the pit are regarded as model.
Prince George and the Duke of Devonshire visited the scene and expressed condolence with the relatives.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1933, Page 5
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172FIFTEEN BEAD Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1933, Page 5
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