ENTOMBED MINERS.
FRUITLESS EFFORTS AT RESCUE. Press Association. —Copyright. Received March 7, 8.36 a.m. London, March 6. ! - Repeated heroic efforts to rescue the entombed miners at Hampstead Colliery have failed. [Owing to caudles being upset part of the timbering of the mine was burnt and a number of men were thus shut into the workings by falls. ] Received March 7, 9.1 a.m. Loudon, March 6, The position of the men entombed in Hampstead Mine is considered hopeless. Welshy, one of the Barnsley rescuers, was provided with breathing apparatus, but collapsed aud died owing to the oxygen becoming exhausted.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9089, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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98ENTOMBED MINERS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9089, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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