AUSTRIAN TRAGEDY.
IMPRISONED MINERS’ FATE. WALLED UP JN EUR OIL LONDON, Dec. 22. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Vienna correspondent says that after an explosion at the Prokop coalmine, near Teblicesanov, which imprisoned six miners, fourteen months ago, a commission of inquiry diagnosed the outbreak of the lire, and ordered the mine to be walled up. A working gang recently drove a 1800-foot shaft to the scene of the explosion, where he found six bodies near a pool of water. They ascertained that a fire had not occurred, 'and the men could have been saved if the mine had not been walled up.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 64, 24 December 1936, Page 5
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