COLLIERY FIRE
Bodies Brought To Surface
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) GLASGOW (Scotland), Sept. 22. One by one the bodies of 45 miners were brought to the surface at the Auchengeich colliery. Lanarkshire, today after being entombed below since a coal damp fire last Friday. As news spread that the bodies had been found hundreds of relatives and friends hurried to the pit head from the surrounding villages. Many of the men’s widows who had kept an all-night vigil at the colliery were crying as the bodies passed. Houses in the village lowered their blinds, and the whole area was in mourning. The dead miners were found during the night on the underground train which was carrying them from the pit bottom to the coalface when it became trapped on the wrong side of a pocket of burning coal gas. One body was found in the tunnel nearer the fire.
Rescuers who had pumped thousands of gallons of water into the mine since last Friday to extinguish the fire and reach the entombed men found that the heat had melted the steel rool supports.
Altogether 47 died in the disaster. One body was recovered last Friday. One is still missing
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 3
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198COLLIERY FIRE Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 3
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