Mining Sensation.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 12 September 1914, Page 4

Mining Sensation.

EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE AT HUNTLY. FOUR MINERS RESCUED OUT OP, 'THIRTY ENTOMBED. [Peu Press Association.] Auckland, Sepetmher 12. An explosion occurred at Raj', 5 mine at Huntly, and thirty miners were entombed.

Four were rescued badly injured. A rescue party has been organised. THE TOWN SHOOK LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE. CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION UNKNOWN. TWENTY MAKE GOOD THEIR ESCAPE. Hamilton, September 12. A terrible explosion occurred at Ralph's mine at Huntly at 7.30 this morning.

Thirty men were entombed. Four were rescued, badly Tburned, three of whom were sent to the Waikato Hospital. The town shook like an earthquake when the explosion occurred and the atmosphere is still dense with smoke. Owing *o the smoke and fumes it is impossible to approach the pit-head, but relief parties left at nine o'clock to enter the shaft from the other end. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

Fifty miners were below when the explosion occurred, hut twenty escaped.

CLOUD OF FLAME AND SMOKE

THE VENTILATION GOOD

Auckland, September 12. When the explosion occurred, flame and smoke and dust were blown up from the main shaft.

Fortunately the workings in Half's mine extend three-quarters of a "mile under the river, and the main shaft is at the Huntly railway station.

There is another shaft three-quar-ters of a mile distant at Taupiri West, where eleven men reached the surface.. Five men were brought to the surface at the main shaft. They were working at the bottom of the shaft when the explosion occurred. A hopeful sign is that a horse believed to have been at, the : east workihgs'.made its way to! u the ' Taupiri ' West 1 shaft- which would indicate. that the through ventilation is rio't bad! Belief parties' have gone ; down both shafts: ''-':■ •■ : ''• ! ' "■'■ ••' • ; : .11 , ' .-■ LLI HI -JiT!l-';:■«( I'