COLLIERY EXPLOSION
A SCOTTISH DISASTER — ■’ TEN MEN KILLED (BY CABLE—PBESB ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] (Received November 2, 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. An entire gang of ten working at Bowhill colliery, Lochoelly, Fifeshire, were killed by an explosion. Scores of miners rushed up from the village and worked, desperately to reach their comrades, but were continually driven back by gas fumes. Wives and mothers waited anxiously at tile pithead for ten hours, but > hope was then abandoned, though efforts are still being made to recover the bodies. Seventy-three have been killed and thirty-five injured in British colliery accidents during 1931. HEROIC RESCUE EFFORTS LONDON, November ;11. The bodies of the Bowhill victims were , recovered, after twentyfbur hours’ rescue work, at 1500 feet finder the surface, volunteers heroically crawling on hands and knees through the debris and foul atmosphere. Many were partially overcome by gas. Canaries taken down to test the air died.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1931, Page 5
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