COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT BARNSLEY
CAUSE OF EXPLOSION NOT YET KNOWN (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. The cause of the explosion in the Barnsley main colliery on Wednesday is a mystery. Members of rescue parties, after examining the scene of the explosion, said that the air was quite fresh, and that oxygen apparatus was not necessary. There was less than a ton of dirt at the coalface. The survivors of the accident all agree that the flash was noiseless. It was preceded by a rushing wind, and followed by clouds of choking dust. One man who was saved because he was standing in a slight recess, said that his helmet was blown from his head and small pieces of flying gravel embedded in his face. Other men working some distance away were blown several yards by the rush of air. There was no panic in the pit/ One man who was killed was to go this week to another colliery. Five years ago, 19 men were killed and 30 others injured in the same pit, when an explosion occurred as men Were sealing up an area after a fire.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25180, 10 May 1947, Page 2
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