ELEVEN MINERS KILLED.
(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright • LONDON, May 31. In a gas explosion in tho Silkst-ono Colliery at Wharncliffe, eleven persons wero killed. Tho rescuers, after three hours' dangerous work, brought tho injured men to the surface, but nearly all succumbed. Tbo news of the explosion caused tho breaking up of cricket and other sport-s, and « wild stampede to the pit-head.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 7
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