A TERRIBLE COLLIERY DISASTER

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 113, 1 August 1885, Page 5

A TERRIBLE COLLIERY DISASTER

London, June 18.— A terrible explosion took piace to day in Pendlebury colliery, near Manchester. Sixty persons have been resoued alive. Seven dead bodies were recovered. One hundred miners are still below,and there is only faint hope that any of these can be saved. The cages in which the volunteers were descending to the bottom of pit got stuck in the shaft, and it was two hours before the party could get to work. The rescued state that wnen the explosion occurred they fled to the bottom shaft, and that they are ignorant of the fate of their companions. Another account says: The explosion occurred in the Clifton colliery. There were 350 men at work at the time, and 120 have been taken out, but 230 are still imprisoned, and it is feared that most of them will perish. London, June 19. — The latest dispatch from Manchester states that 204 miners have been rescued alive from the Pendle bury colliery j that 22 bodies have been taken out and that 122 men are still unaccounted for. The work of exploring is im peded by the bad ventilation and water in the mine. London, June 10. — It 13 now known that 140 persona were killed by the explosions in the Pendlebury colliery, near Manchester, yesterday. The chamber in which the explosion occurred is so filled with debris that thus far only forty-five bodies have been removed. j The Mayor of Manchester has sent a telegram to the Mayor of London, thanking the latter for his offers to open a relief fund for the sufferers by the Pendlobury colliery disaster, and adding that upwards of 160 miners are known to be dead. Nkw York, June 22.— The " Sun's ' London special says : The disastar in the Pendlebury colliery, near Manchester, proves to have been more terrible than at tirst reported. The number known to have been killed is 168, and many more still unaccounted for. The colliers' families are already pinched to the verge of deepair,and great misery is feared for many. The number of wage earners now killed represents fully 500 widows ahd orphans. Not one in fifty has a shilling saved.