COLLIERY ON FIRE
EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP HUNDRKI) MEN ENTOMBED. (Received August 9, 8.10 a.m.) BERLIN, August 8. Tlirough an explosion of (ire-damp in, the Lothringen colliery at Boehum, in the province of AVostphalia, a hundred men were entombed. Sixty-five have been saved. There are seven dead and sixteen severely injured. (Received August 9, 8.55 a.m.) BERLIN. August 8. There r>ro more men entombed at Boehum than at first supposed.
Twenty-five bodies have been recovered. Others were incinerated. The colliery is on fire.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 10 August 1912, Page 5
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82COLLIERY ON FIRE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 10 August 1912, Page 5
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