HOPE ABANDONED
FUMES HAMPER RESCUE OF BURIED MEN
TRAGEDY IN CANADA VANCOUVER, Thursday. Rescue parties in the Blakehurn colliery at Coalmont, British Columbia. where an explosion occurred yesterday. have been attempting for 24 hours without success to reach the 46 men who are entombed. Practically all hope has been abandoned for the entombed men. The rescuers are still working in short relays. They come out of the mine reeling, half poisoned by gas fumes, indicating that there is little chance of finding any survivors. Thirty of the rescuers have been overcome. The evidence at the inquest on the two men whose bodies were recovered revealed that their deaths were caused by afterdamp. It may be a week or more before the entombed men are reached Eighteen of them are married. In three cases the victims are brothers.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19300816.2.75
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 9
Word Count
137HOPE ABANDONED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in