MINERS ENTOMBED.
FORTY RESCUED ALIVE. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (rbcter's telegrams.) (Received March 9th, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 8. A telegram from Bluefield, West Virginia, states that of 68 miners entombed in mines five and six, Raleigh County, two were killed, and 40 rescued 1 alive. Twenty-six were entombed when a blast occurred in mine five, but fire spread to mine six, trapping forty others. ____________
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18636, 10 March 1926, Page 9
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