MINE EXPLOSION
DISASTER IN BOHEMIA [BY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.] (Reed. Jan. 4, 1.30 p.m.). PRAGUE, January 3. Nearly IGO miners were trapped at Dux, following a fire-damp explosion. The entrance to three mines, connected by underground passages, was destroyed, and escape cut off. A rescue party recovered four bodies. The rescuers are working with the greatest difficulty, and are continally being overcome. Dux is a town in the lignite coalfield of Bohemia, Austria, and has a population of 12,000.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1934, Page 5
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80MINE EXPLOSION Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1934, Page 5
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