COLLIERY DISASTERS
— V - — TWENTY-SIX'KHjIjEP. (HT TELEOEAPU—FRLSS iSSQCIiT(O^'—COrTEIGITT,) New York, August 27, . Through a fire at the Hailayville coalmine, Oklahoma, it is believed that §0 persons hay§ been suffocated. • Twenty-pk bfldipa haye so fgr been re* govered. A NARROW ESCAPE. (Beo, August 28, O,'lQ p.m.) l,or|don, August 28, A fire in the Hapten Valley Colliery, BurnJoy, destroyed the pithead, entombing 15 jnei?. They all escaped safely by air roads to the surface, though two of them wera over* taken by fumes and almost suffocated. MAYPOLE RELIEF FUND. M'ndon, August 27. The relief fund ppened for the sufferer? by the disaster at the No. 1 Maypole Colliery, Abrani, Lancashire, in which over Ytj lives were lost, hag reached £5000. This, includes (i subscription of fropj Mr, Audrow Carnegie,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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126COLLIERY DISASTERS Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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