MINE DISASTER
NORTH FRANCE PIT 14 DEAD; 37 INJURED SHAFT DEMOLISHED (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright.) PARIS, April 19. Fourteen miners were killed, 37 gravely injured and 17 are missing as a result of an explosion in a coal mine at Salluamines near Lens in the north of France. The Ministry of the Interior stated that 350 miners were originally trapped. Officials supervising the rescue operations later said that nearly 250 miners were saved. The explosion occurred just, at the end of the working day. The miners, a few minutes later, would have been at the surface. Rescue workers fighting the fire started by the explosion, brought 100 miners, all of them injured, to the top of an alternative shaft The explosion, which was apparently caused by fire-damp, demolished one shaft. One eye-witness said that a huge sheet of flame shot out of the mineshaft. The explosion destroyed the shaft superstructure which toppled over while the shaft itself caved in.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 5
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