GAS EXPLOSIONS
IN ALABAMA COAL MINE FOURTEEN MEN KILLED. EIGHTEEN OTHERS SERIOUSLY BURNED. • (By Telegraph—Press Association*-Copyright) (Received This Day,. 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 29. Gas explosions in a coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, killed 14 men and seriously burned 18 others. An explosion took place two miles underground. While rescue workers were clearing away debris to rescue twelve injured men and recovered thirteen bodies, a second explosion occurred, killing one rescuer and burning six others.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1943, Page 3
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76GAS EXPLOSIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1943, Page 3
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