Colliery Explosion.
A STAMPEDE TO PSTHEAD. MANY MINERS KILLED, pjx Eliotmo Tkibqbaph—Copyright [UNITED PItESS ABBOHUTTW . i (Received 10.30 a.m.) London, May 31. By a gas explosion at Silkstone colliery, Wharncliire, eleven were killed.' The rescuers, after three hours' dangerous work, brought the injured men to the surface, hut most of them succumbed. The news caused the breaking up of cricket and other sports, followed by a wild stampede to the pithead.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 34, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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71Colliery Explosion. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 34, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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