A COLLIERY FIRE
EIGHT-ONE WORKERS BELOW
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, September 16. A fire occurred in, the Chesterlie Street colliery. Eighty-one workers were below at the time of the outbreak. The greatest anxiety prevailed until the men were rescued in batches of five through an up-cast air shaft. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10426, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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56A COLLIERY FIRE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10426, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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