SEVEN MINERS KILLED
Water Breaks Into Workings SOUTH WALES DISASTER (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 26. Seven miners have been given up for lost as the result of a drowning accident in South Wales. While 20 men of the day shift were at work to-day in the Loveston pit in Pembrokeshire, which only recently had been reopened after several years, water broke through the roof of the workings, which are 600 feet deep. Thirteen of the men succeeded in fighting their way to safety. Rescue work was feverishly pursued but owing to the rising water the difficulties were great. One body’ has been recovered but nothing has been seen or hoard of six other men who were trapped, and hope has been abandoned One mnn could have escaped, but returned into the torrent in an attempt to save ills younger brother.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 206, 28 May 1936, Page 9
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