TWO DISASTERS. EXPLOSION AT A COLLIERY.
FOURTEEN KILLED. GREAT DAMAGE TO THE MINE. by Telegraph. — Press Association — Copyrijrhfc. (Received February 22, 8.17 a.m.) LONDON, 21st Febiuaiy. An explosion at the Glelx? collieiy, in the village of Washington, killed fourteen out of fiitcen poisons in the mine at the time. Grant damage vraa done to the mine, th-erc b^ing many falls in the workings. The explosion occurred in tho night. There are usually five hundred pel sons j employed in the duy-time. DYNAMITE EXPLODES. TWENTY-EIGHT LIVES LOST. j SAN FRANCISCO, 21st February. ■ Ten tons of dynamite exploded in a, j building belonging to the Hercules powder works, Berkeley, California, killing four whites and twenty-four Chinamen.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 5
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