SUDDEN DISASTER
SEVEN MEN BURIED ALIVE SLIDE FOLLOWS DYNAMITE BLAST. ONE WORKER HURLED TO SAFETY By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) QUEBEC, December 8. A message from Thetford Mines, Quebec, states that seven miners were buried alive by a .slide following a dynamite blast,’ in the Bell Asbestos Mine. Two hours later rescue crews found all the men dead. All were married men and thirty-four children are fatherless *’ Arthur Hudson, a lone survivor, described hearing a sound like a hurricane. He threw himself on the floor of a railway car. A moment later a huge mass of asbestos hurled the car to safety and engulfed the remainder of ,men. ______
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 8
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