COLLIERY DISASTER.
SIX MINERS KILLED.
SURVIVORS SAVED BY WATERCOURSE.
(Received 2.30 p.m.] LONDON, September 4. j A sudden rush of gas killed five and uijured two night shift miners in Ponthehry Colliery, Wales. Violent Wast extinguished their lamps' The smallness of the number of deaths was one to tlie fact that the survivors namcrscd their faces in a small waterIjourse or used their caps as respirators. This is the third similar mishap at this pit in three years.—(A and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 211, 5 September 1924, Page 5
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