MINE EXPLOSION
FOUR MEN KILLED. l-'ROBABL V BURNED WHILE UNCONSCIOUS. tU.I’.A. by Efec. Tel. Copyright). BRISBANE, May 10. The bodies of the tour men, badly burned and mutilated, were recovered from Aberdare Colliery. It is believed the miners were having a meal when the explosion knocked them unconscious and that tho Hames then swept over them. Tho rescuers lost no time bringing the bodies to the surface, because the (lames were rapidly approaching them.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12864, 19 May 1936, Page 3
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74MINE EXPLOSION Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12864, 19 May 1936, Page 3
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