EXPLOSION IN MINE
OUTBREAK OF FIRE FOLLOWS SEVEN LIVES LOST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December It). An explosion in the Birchcnwood colliery at Kidsgrove, in Staffordshire, occurred when the afternoon shift was still below the groonj. A fire followed the explosion. Rescuers, who rushed to the scene and worked heroically all night, saved all except seven men, the body of one of whom was brought up tin's morning. The rescue efforts were later abandoned owin gto the rapid spread of the lire.—Reuter. LITTLE HOPE OF RESCUE. LONDON, December 2fl. (Received December 21, at 9.10 a.m.) There is little hope of saving the six men left in the Birchcnwood colliery. There were 37S men in the pit when the explosion occur rod. Many of those were burnt, a«xl others had to hade their wav out.—A. and N.Z. Gable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 5
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