PIT DISASTER.
DEATH ROLL IN GERMANY
COLOGNE, February 23. Thirty-one miners were killed in a fire-damp explosion in a reserve pit at Nothberg, near Eschweiler. Fourteen others were sent to hospital suffering from gas poisoning. Forty pit ponies were killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 46, 24 February 1931, Page 7
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