MINING DISASTER.
GALLERIES BECOME VAST FURNACES.
HUNDREDSOP MINERS BURNED TO DEATH. AGONISING SCENES. ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE ABANDONED. Received March 12, 12.45 a.m. PARIS, March 11. A fire wbioh ooourred, at a depth of 700 feet, Jed to a terrific explosion in the Oourriers Mines in Prance, at seven o'cloak on Saturday morning. The cages were destroyed, and the cuttings were filled with poisonous fumes. Three galleries bnjame vast furnace, the flames leaping to the pits' mouths. Seventeen hundred and ninety-five miners were burned to death, and four hundred were rescued. The latent estimate of deaths is eleven hundred and ninety-three. Agonising soenea were witnessed at the pit's heads among the women and friends of the entombed miners when the news spread that the galleries were oaving in, aud that further attempts at rescue were abandoned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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135MINING DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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