MINE DISASTERS
AMERICAN DISASTERS
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
NEW YORK, January 29
Five were killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine in West Frankfort on Friday, but no lire broke out, as had been reported. Safety measures, it is believed, saved more than eleven hundred miners from possible injury in the mine, which is one of the largest and most modern in the world. The damage Suffered was negligible. Thirty men are reported to have been killed through a gas explosion in a coal mine twenty-five miles from Birmingham, Alabama. Twenty men were rescued.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1926, Page 5
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