MINE EXPLOSION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 24 December 1910, Page 5

MINE EXPLOSION

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE EFFORTS AT RESCUE.

BODIES BLOWN TO PIECES. (Rcoived December"23, l».-'iU a.m.) LONDON*, Dec-M.ber 22. Rescue efforts ::i the PteU-ria mine were continued .he night. It was fciin'ri it;■ = ..-»<--•»">/** u i.ienetrate far into the worki.i;.v. o'.iing to the gas fumes and heavx tails of rock. Many of the bodies were blown, to pieces. Women and girls kept a vigil at the 1 pit-head. The British Association visited the mine at its annual meeting, because it was one of the best-equipped, in Lancashire. The management could have secured c:a! threepc-iee a ton cheaper by mea::;; of oxplc-iwb, but substituted hydraulic ir.::-v:ir>e.y, to lessen the risk The Mayor cf Boiton ha; ef.esKd a fund for the r-'!i.f of the :ami;i-.>s of the victims. President Pa Hie res has \<:!e«.Tsipliecl his condolences. THE LATEST REPORT. A BOY THE ONLY SURVIVOR. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY BODIES FOUND. 1250 BEREFT OF ¥■ HEADWINNERS. (Received Last Night, l jJ<j o'clock.) LONDON, December 23. The only survivor of the explosion was a boy. who dashed nlor;g the tunnel immediately the explosion- occurred. He was rescued by the, men who descended the Arley mine. One hundred and fifty "xiuies have been found. • Heavy rains impede th'- removal of the bodies. Twelve hundred and fifty women and children are bereft of their breadwinners. ■ A Mansion House fund has*.been opened. ' '. A sum of £50,000 is reorared to relieve the sufferer.?.