MINING EXPLOSIONS.
, ' ,» .. .'- ; ; ' ; , TWO DISASTF;RS. ; . - GREAT SACRIFICE OF LIFE. . DT TELEOBAPH—riIBSS ASaOCIATIDN—CoriEIQHT^ (Rec. Dec.'l 7, ,10.38 p.m.) i .New York,' December 17. An explosion in a mine, at Yolande,. near Birmingham, Alabama, entombed ninety men. Forty groped their to tho(surface within an hour. The rescuersifound a:number of corpses. ' ! ! ■ , Lortdoi),, December 16. ' From- Gilfachcoch, a Glamorganshire town about eleven miles from • Mertiiyr 'Tydfil, comes nows of an explosion in a. mine, causing loss of life. The acqident occurred;.lyhilp tho bulk'of the mon wero being paid their wages,; otherwise the death-roll might easily have» been very much heavier. Thoro wero only twelve men left in the pit at tho timo. Of, theso' seven wero killed, through burns and shock, and ono was, injured. ", '; ' Tho remaining four- were-rescued from* thoir dangerous position.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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128MINING EXPLOSIONS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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