Terrible Colliery Explosion in Berlin.
A terrible mining disaster i 3 reported from Rhenish, Prussia. In the Consolidation Mine, near Schalke, in the district of Dortmund, an explosion of firedamp occurred, when there were four hundred and twenty miners in the pit. According to one of the men who was rescued, a stream of gaa was suddenly noticed to be issuing from a fissure, and immediately atterward3 came in contact with a lamp, whereupon a dark-blue flame instantly seemed to fill the mine. This waa followed directly afterward by a terrible pressure of the air. The ittempt to rescue the miners began about noon, and did not conclude till 11 o'clock at night. Forty-five men were brought to the pit's bank dead Another man was so injured that he died on trie way to the hospital. Ono or two of the injured men have become insane. Half those killed in the mino perished through the exploeion, the otheie by suffocation.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3
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160Terrible Colliery Explosion in Berlin. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 3
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