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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 13 March 1906, Page 3

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ORGANISING BELIEF FUNDS. POPULACE DANGEROUSLY EXCITED. TROOPS MAINTAINING ORDER. Received IS, 11.29 i.rn. Pakis, March 12. All Governments at.d heads of States have condoled with France in connection with the Cuurricrc's mining disaster. The latest estimate gives upwards of eleven hundred deaths. A profound impression has been created iu Paris.

President -Fnllicrcs seat a repre. 'sonftttivc to' express sympathy with Ac population.; - TUo outgoing "Ministers of the Interior and Works visited the scene.

The Government is organising public relief for the widows and orphans, and the l'rsss. Syndicate at Paris has invited private fcharity. The Prefect says the greatest difficulty is experienced in restraining the bewildered wives and children of the miners still nuder-ground, from approaching the flames issuing from the pits' mouths, which are increasing in volume and intensity. On account of this and the waylaying of vehicles conveying corpses with a view to ascertaining the breadwinner's fate, reinforcements of troops and gendarmes have been summoned to maintain order.

The general excitement throughout tlic district is arousing a certain degree of apprehension.

' THE .RESCUED, . Received 18,11.31 p.m. Pabis, Mareh 12. Tile explosion projected three cages with the men who were being lowered in then), destroying the roofs, over the mouths of the pits. Four men arrived at the surface by ladders, after passing oiver the bodies of men and horses prostrated by the explosion. The rescuers, including the doctors aud engineers, descended the other shafts and rescued three hundred and fifty, working half a mile from the explosion. They were brought to the surface and had not suffered severely. Later three hundred, more or less seriously injured, were discovered. The rescuers worked in relays till uight and made a way six hundred yards from flic bottom of the shaft.

Two miners were found alive at midnight. A foreman, after the explosion, told them to lie down, and they escaped the first gust of poisonous air. After being prisoners for eight hours, the foreman said he felt he was dying and urged them to escape. The three tried, but the foreman was missed and doubtless has fallen.