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DISASTER IN AMERICAN MINE FRANTIC RESCUE EFFORTS. TWO BODIES RECOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BARTLEY (Virginia). January 11. With seven known dead, rescuers are working frantically to release 80 men trapped 600 feet underground by an explosion in a Posahontas coal mine. Rescuers, hindered by “dead air,” pushed slowly toward the sections where the men are entombed. Two dead were found within half a mile. Hopes of finding the others alive are dwindling with the passing hours. Two thousand relatives are waiting on the surface.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 5
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86MEN ENTOMBED Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 5
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