FATAL EXPLOSION.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright.
THREE MEN KILLED. A FALL OF EARTH. RESCUE PARTY~ENTOMBED. Received January 27, 9.55 a.m. NEW YORK, January 26. An explosion in the Boswell Coalmine in Somerset County, State of Pennsylvania, killed three persons. A subsequent fall of earth in the workings entombed a rescue party numbering 22 men. RESCUERS BELILVED TO HAVE PERISHED. Received January 27, 10.40 p.m. NEW YORK, January 25. All the entombed rescuers are believed to have perished. Subsequent parties were unable to penetrate into the mine owing to afterdamp.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3103, 28 January 1909, Page 5
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93FATAL EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3103, 28 January 1909, Page 5
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