MINE EXPLOSION
Twenty Dead And Sixty Entombed BRITISH COLLIERY Rescue Team Working Desperately By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received May 11, 12.30 a.m.) London, May 10. An explosion at the Markham colliery, Puckmanton, as the night shift of 200 men was coming to the surface, entrapped 123 and injured an unknown number, 49 of whom were taken to hospital. A second explosion at 8 a.m. led to the decision to seal up a section . of the pit. ; Rescue brigades rushed to the scene and 60 stretchers were taken to the pit bottom. The death roll is 20 and 60 are still entombed. A rescue team of 100 men equipped . with tubes of oxygen are working des- ■ perately, aided by some of the rescued,, while sobbing women and girls crowd i the pithead. They include Mrs. Grain- . ger, whose husband, son and two bro- , thers-in-law are below. Her husband ’ narrowly escaped death in the 1937 explosion when nine were killed.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 6
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157MINE EXPLOSION Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 6
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