MOPE ABANDONED
five ENTOMBED MINERS. BENTLEY DEATH ROLL - ‘ TOTALS 42, /UP A by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) ' '' LONDON, Nov. 22. Hop© of rescuing five entombed miners'at Bentley has been abandoned, and with to-day’s deaths in hospital tho death roll is now 42. Seven of the’ injured are still in a. critical condition.. ■ ' The stricken 'village of Beiitley is bowed under the blow. There is a. whole street where nearly ©very homo is * bereaved. * Some, still clingiiigto hope, waited all day in a' thick fog at the pitliead'for ’news of those entombed 1 until, with darkness, it was announced .that-it ; wa3 ihipossible to reach them. •
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11495, 24 November 1931, Page 7
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