THE MINE DISASTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 October 1913, Page 5

THE MINE DISASTER.

HEROISM OF RESCUERS.

GLORIOUS' PLUCK DISPLAYED

(Received Lust Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, October 18. Tlio heroism displayed at Senghenydd was of the finest description. Mr A. C. Edwards, Liberal member for Glamorganshire, who assisted the fighters, says; "We crept on hands and knees over the smouldering debris. The heat was terribly oppressive, and the roof was crumb-1 ling and falling. We found the men pegging away in twenty-minute terms pourning water on the flames. They stooped or lay on the shouldering heaps, through which the fumes were arising. The heat was suffocating, and burnt the clothes and boots. Every moment there was danger of being crushed by the falling roof, while the gradually gathering gas threatened another explosion. They worked on with, glorious pluck. Nine out of ten were overcome by the gas. As they recovered they returned to the fighting line. Their efforts were fruitful and it was hoped to explore the distant workings on Saturday. Three bodies were recovered from a stable behind the fall of earth. RESCUERS AT WORK. DRIVEN BACK BY SMOKE. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, October 18. The rescuers reached the stables at Senghenydd, when a sudden outburst of smoke caused them to retreat to the shaft, three-qifarters of a mile distaht. It was discovered that the outbrust was due to the temporary cession of the efforts to extinguish the fire while additional water pipes were being installed. The decomposed bodies will be removed to-day.

THE FIRE MASTERED. RESCUERS' NARROW ESCAPES, (Rceived Oct. IS, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 17. The fire at the Sengenydd Mine has been mastered and the ventilation of the mine has improved. There were many narrow escapes Several of the rescuers were overcome by fumes and heat, and had to be artificially restored. A PHANTOM MINER. 'Times'—'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Oct. 18, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. ■Weird stories have been circulated and credited by the impressionable Welsh people in connection with the colliery disaster. One is that a phantom miner beckons the rescuers, pointing as though to others equally ghostly. Over 205 widows and 390 children are dependent on the missing. A woman wh6se husband and son are entombed has given birth to her twelfth child.