SIX LIVES LOST THROUGH ERROR
MINE ORDERED TO BE WALLED UP AFTER EXPLOSION (Received December 23, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 22. The Vienna correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says that I after an explosion at the Prokop coal mine near Teblicesanov. which imprisoned six miners 14 months ago, a commission of enquiry declared that the cause was an outbreak of fire and ordered the mine to be walled up. A working gang recently drove an 1800-foot shaft to the scene of ■ the explosion and found six bodies near a pool of water. It was ascertained that a fire had not occurred and that the men could have been saved if the mine had not been balled up.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21974, 24 December 1936, Page 11
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