MINE EXPLOSION IN GERMANY
66 KILLED AND 27 INJURED BERLIN, May 21. Grief-stricken widows and children tc-sav mourned ’he 66 miners killed in a Ruhr coalmine exp’osion yestermore than half a mile below the surface at the industrial city of Gelsenkirchen. German officials, announcing the latest death roll, said that 27 other miners were still in hospital, some Seriously injured. Rescuers found that many of the miners had been killed instantly by the blast. Others, unable to move, had been burnt to death. The mining authorities have begun 8n investigation into the cause of the blast, which is believed to have been off hv an electrical fault igniting damp. There were 120 men in th« nit when the exnlosion occurred. Many who escaned said that they owed thrir lives simnle luck. Cn» man struggled for five hours to reach thn surface. c :mbing over the bodies of dead comrades.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26119, 23 May 1950, Page 5
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