FEARFUL EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY. SIXTY MEN BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED.
Ak explosion occurred in the Bentiles colliery afc Longbon, county of Stafford, early on October 16bh, says a London dispatch. Seventy miners were in bho pit at the time. Only eleven of them are now alive. The pit was completely wrecked. The task of getting out the buried miners will bo one. of great difficulty. Volunteers are ongaged in milking explorations for the recovery of the bodies. The men engaged for a search for the victims found fifty dead miners this morn injj. The bodies recovered show that the victims died of gas poi&oning. The rescuers were compelled to relinquish the search by the accumulation of gas. The latest advices from the scene state bhaba fire is raging and another explosion is feared. The underground manager is among the victims. Tho record of the men down in the mine has been lost, hence it is impossible to verify the number. Tho latest estimate is that sixty persons were killed.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 421, 20 November 1889, Page 3
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170FEARFUL EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY. SIXTY MEN BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 421, 20 November 1889, Page 3
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