TERRIBLE MINING DISASTER.
425 MINERS REPORTED TO HAVE PERISHED. Received December 8, 4.42 p.m. NEW YORK, December 7. A mining disaster occurred yesterday at Monougah, near Fairmound. The scene of the catastrophe was the Baltimore Consolidated Goal Company's mine, where, through an explosion, two pits mutually connected and situated on the opposite sides of the west forth of the Monongahela river, were set on fire. Some hundreds of men were at work in the mines. A number of them were hurled through the ventilating shafts. The actual loss of life is not yet known, but it is feared that 425 men have perished. The fumes were so dense that search parties who entered the mine were unable to penetrate into the mine. Some of the bodies discovered by the explorers were so mutilated as to be quite unrecognisable. All the passages of the mine are blocked by ihe fall of debris. It will be a miracle if any of the entombed men are saved. The force of the explosion was so great that it shook all the houses within a radius of eight miles.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8999, 9 December 1907, Page 5
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184TERRIBLE MINING DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8999, 9 December 1907, Page 5
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