STARVED TO DEATH.
HORRIDLE FATE OF GERMAN MINERS. I
United Ass-sciatior. —By Electrio Tel-egrnph—Copjrifphi. BERLIN, May o. ] Twenty-two corpses have been found in tiie Borus-;in mines, in Westphalia. There arc indications that the men starved to death after the explosion of last June. They caulked al the crevices with strips of their clothes to prevent an innii-h of gas. Tlie explorers of the ' mine, as in the case of the Courrieres disaster, relinquished hope at an early •stage.
[ CABLE NEWS.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12497, 7 May 1906, Page 7
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