COLLIERY DISASTER
I FIRE CAUSES EXPLOSION 41 BELGIANS KILLED I [by CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. May 17, 8 a.m.) BRUSSELS, May 16. IL is feared Iba I. 39 lives were lost in a lire following a fire-damp explosion at a colliery near Paturages. Three dead and four injured were brought to the surface. Constant falls of rock are impeding (he rescuers. CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION (Recd. May 17, 1 p.m.). BRUSSELS, May 16. Of forty-six miners working at Paturages at midnight, 2500 feet'from the surface, forty-one were killed instantly, and five were injured when gas flames, reaching a temperature of 1500 degrees centigrade, ignited the coal seam. The bodies recovered were unrecognisable, except by the lamp numbers and identification discs. King Leopold visited the stickcn town and comforted the bereaved relatives.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1934, Page 7
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