MINE DISASTER.
DEAD TOTAL SEVENTY-ONE. POISONED BY GAS. RESCUE DIFFICULTIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 8, 12.45 a.m. New York, Nov. 6. A mining disaster is reported, but details as to the locality have not arrived. The exhumed dead now total seventy-one and the rescued living thirty-three, all of whom are dangerously ill through gas poisoning. The disaster is assuming proportions which will probably make it one-of the worst in the history of American coal mining. Nearly all of the. entombed men are married. Their families are crowding the neighborhood of the mine and they offer a pitiable spectacle. The work of rescue, although speedily organised, was hampered by a broken air fan, which took hours to repair before a draft of the necessary air could be sent into the mine cavern. Rescuers commandeered from dozens of neighboring towns were compelled to work in shifts of a few minutes, owing to the presence of vast quantities of poisonous gas.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1922, Page 5
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159MINE DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1922, Page 5
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