LUCKY ESCAPE OF ENTOMBED MINERS.
Received August 28, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, August 28. A fire at Hapton Valley Colliery at Burnley, destroyed the pit-head, entombing fifteen who escaped safely by air roads to the surface, after two had been overtaken by fumes ar.d almost suffocated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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45LUCKY ESCAPE OF ENTOMBED MINERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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