MINE DISASTER.
EXPLOSION TRAPS MEN. FORTY IN DANGER. RECOVERY OF BODIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 5. An explosion occurred in the Whitehaven Colliery pit, Cumberland, in a seam about a mile and a half from the surface, where 40 men were working. Three dead have been brought to the surface, and the others are entombed and heavy lose of life is feared, though it is hoped some of those entombed may have escaped by a drift into an adjoining pit. EIGHTEEN BODIES RECOVERED. PATHETIC SCENES AT PIT-HEAD. Received Sept. 6. 55 p.m. London. September 5. Eighteen dead have been recovered from the Whitehaven colliery. The pit parties are hampered by poison gas. The grief-stricken wives and mothers of the entombed men are awaiting news at the pit-head. The victims include a father and his two sons: also a mining student named Fell son of the vicar of Whitehaven, who had descended into a pit for the first time.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1922, Page 5
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161MINE DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1922, Page 5
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