MINE DISASTER
THE MARKHAM COLLIERY EXPLOSION. COMMISSIONER TO CONDUCT INQUIRY. RUGBY, May 19. The Recorder of Leicester, Mr P. E. Sandlands, has been appointed commissioner to inquire into the causes of the explosion in the Markham colliery on May 10. The chief inspector of mines will act as assessor to the commission. Seventy-nine men were killed as the result of an explosion at the Markham colliery, Duckmanton, which occurred as the night shift of 200 men were coming to the surface, entrapping 123 of them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 7
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85MINE DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 7
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