WELSH MINE DISASTER.
KILLED BY AFTERDAMP.
AGONISING STRUGGLES.
LONDON, November IS.
three hundred of the bodies of the victims of the Sengenhydd disaster have now been recovered. The exploration parties have concluded their search. They found everywhere evidence of a struggle on the part of the victims to make their escape. It was heartrending to see the dead lying together in groups with coats closely wrapped round mouths and heads in the endeavour to hide themselves from the fearful afterdamp. The commotion must have been terrible and the excitement agonising. For a workman to walk in to-day and carry out a body is in itself an heroic achievement. The food was uneaten in every case, indicating speedy deaths from suffocation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 5
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