TRAGEDIES OF THE MINE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8345, 30 January 1907, Page 5

TRAGEDIES OF THE MINE.

A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION IN PRUSSIA. OVER FOUR HUNDRED MINERS ENTOMBED. Received January 29, 9.29 a.m. BERLIN, January 28. News has been received of a disastrous explosion in the Reiden pit, in Rhenish Prussia. Four hundred and twenty-five miners are entombed. One hundred and sixty-four corpses have been recovered, together with seventeen miners who are badly injured. EXPLOSION CAUSED BY FIREDAMP. A FIRE NOW RAGING. RESCUE WORK ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. Received January 29, 10.13 p.m. BERLIN, January 29. The Reiden mine is the property of the Government. - Fire-damp caused an explosion at a depth of 2,300 feet. It is feared that the rest of those entombed have been suffocated. 1 A fire is now raging, rendering rescue work almost mpossibe. A second explosion has occurred. M. Fallieres, President of France, has telegraphed to the Kaiser the sympathy of the French nation at the terrible disaster. ' EXPLOSION IN FRANCE. Received January 29, 8.50 a.m. PARIS, January 28. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Lievin Colliery, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France. Several men were killed. i PREVIOUS DISASTERS. The disaster .in Prussia recalls'to mind a number of previous tragedies Of the mine, and the list since 1860 makes appalling reading. It is as follows:

December 1, 1860 —Risca Mine, near Newport, Mon.; 145 lives lost. January 16, 1862 —Hartley, Northumberland ; 202 lives lost. December 12, 1866—Oaks Colliery, near Barnsley; 360 lives lost, 28 searchers were also killed by a second explosion -on Decembeivlo. December 6, 1875—Swaithe Main, near Barrtsley; 140 lives lost. December 14, 1875—Colliery near Mons, Belgium; 110 lives lost. October 22, 1877—Blantyre, near Glasgow; 200 lives lost. June 7, 1878—Wood Pits, : Haydock, near Wigan; 189 lives lost. September 11, 1878—Ebb Vale Colliery: 2,68 lives lost. - June r5, 1880—Risca, near Newport, Mon.; 120 lives lost. September 8, 1880 —Seaham Colliery ; 164 lives lost. December 10, 1880—Pen-y-gra,ig, South' Wales; 101 lives lost. March 17, 1885—Dombrau, Saarbruck; 140 lives lost. , June 18, 1885—Clifton Hall, near Pendlebury, Lancashire; 177 lives lost. . v May 4, 1887—Victoria Colliery; Nanaimo, Vancouver Island; over 170 lives lost. ■ July >3, 1889—Verpilleux Pit, near St. Etienne; about 184 lives lost. , April 3, 1890—Lianesch Colliery, Monmouthshire; 176 lives lost. July 29,'1890-pPelissier Mine, St. Etienne; about 109 lives lost. March 11, 1892—Anderlues Colliery, Mons, Belgium; about 153 lives lost.

August 26, 1892 —Park Slip Col.liery, Tondu, South Wales; 116.lives lost. July 4, 1893—Combs Colliery, Thornhill, near Dewsbury; 139 lives lost. June 23, 1894—Albion Colliery, near Pontypridd, South Wales; 2&6 lives lost. May 19,1902—Fraterville Colliery, Tennessee: over 200 lives lost. May 23, 1902 —Crow's Nest Pass, British Columbia; about 150 lives lost. July 10, 1902—Rolling Mill Mine, Pennsylvania; 105 lives lost. June 30, 1903—Hanna Mine, Wyoming ; 175 lives lost. July 11, 1905—Wattstown Colliery, Rhondda Valley; 119 lives lost. March 28, 1906—Takashima Mine, Japan, 255. lives lost. March 10, 1906—Courrieres Mine, France 1,095 lives lost.

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