203 ENTOMBED MINERS
ALL HOPE ABANDONED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 29. All hope of saving the 203 entombed miners at Eccles (West Virginia) has been abandoned. The flames drive back the rescuers. SIXTY-SEVEN RESCUED. NEW "YjpRK, April 29. (Received April 50, at noon.) Sixty-seven men were rescued alive from the New River colliery after all hope had been abandoned.
One hundred and seventy men are still entombed behind the flames. The mine authorities are afraid there is not the slightest hope of saving them.
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Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 6
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86203 ENTOMBED MINERS Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 6
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