COLORADO MINE DISASTER.
ALL THE VICTIMS FOREIGNERS. ONE SURVIVOR FOUND. Received February 3, 8.5 a.m. NEW YORK, February 2. The victims of the Colorado mine disaster are Slavs, Italians and Hungarians. The shaft was hopelessly shattered. Armed with oxygen helmets the first rescue party penetrated a short distance into the workings, and were then utterly exhausted. Twenty-four bodies brought to the surface were so charred that they could not be identified. Only one survivor was found beneath earth and timber.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9710, 4 February 1910, Page 5
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80COLORADO MINE DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9710, 4 February 1910, Page 5
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