COAL MINE EXPLOSION
DISASTER IN OKLAHOMA
SIXTY-TWO BODIES FOUND
NEW YOEK, 17th December.
Sixty-two bodies were found in a gas-filled chamber 5000 feet bolow the surface after a frightful explosion in the Oldtown coal mine at M'Alister. Two miners escaped alive, but the remainder were suffocated by gas.
Groups of screaming and sobbing women and children gathered at theentrance to the mine. The majority of the miners were married and have left nearly two hundred children. A Bed Cross appropriation of 20,000 dollars is requested for tho immediate care of tho bereaved. •
The mine authorities believe that all the men are accounted for. Belief workers, after spending the. day endeavouring to save- the miners, turned their efforts to aid the hysterical, griefstricken families of the mining -village, who were- interrupted by the blast in the midst of their preparations to celebrate Christmas. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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142COAL MINE EXPLOSION Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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