MINING DISASTER.
ONE HUNDRED MINERS EN-
TOMBED
MANY FATALITIES FEARED.
[united tress association COPYRIGHT] (Received Dec. 11, 12.25 a.m.) . NEW YORK, Dec. 10. An explosion in the main mine at tlie Gross Mountain system, Knoxville, has entombed' probably a hundred miners. Throngs of women and children are besieging the shaft mouth. Three of the entombed miners escaped by a lateral shaft. Rescue parties were driven out by flames, without seeing any signs of the victims. Little is expected to be done till the fire is subdued.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3396, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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86MINING DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3396, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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