MINING DISASTER
FATAL GAS EXPLOSION ELEVEN MEN KILLED RESCUERS' DANGEROUS WORK. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received June 1, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 31st May. By a gas explosion at the Silkstone Colliery, at Wharncliffe. Yorkshire, eleven men were killed. The rescuers, after three hours' dangerous work, brought men who were overcome by the gas fumes to the surface, but they nearly all succumbed. The news caused the breaking up of cricket and other sports, and there was a wild stampede to the pithead.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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83MINING DISASTER Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1914, Page 7
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