HOPE ABANDONED.
MINING DISASTER AT M'CURTAIN. SEVENTY.EIGHT~MEN ENTOMBED. By Telegraph,— Press Association.— Copyright. NEW YORK, 21st March. Hope has been abandoned of the rescue of the miners imprisoned at M'Curtain, Oklahoma, in consequence of a gas explosion. The latest returns show that seventy-tight men were entombed. TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED. IT IS BELIEVED TWENTY-FIVE MEN ESCAPED. (Received March 22, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, 21st March. At M'Curtain twenty bodies have been recovered. _ They were blackened beyond recogition. The mine is wrecked. It is certain that twenty-five men escaped. Seventy are still unaccounted for. Rescue parties are exploring the interior of the mine and making ghastly discoveries. There aw bodies in all directions.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 70, 22 March 1912, Page 7
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