OVER 130 MEN KILLED

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1928, Page 5

OVER 130 MEN KILLED

U.S.A. COLLIERY EXPLOSION Only Few Escape (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, May 20. A coal mine explosion at Mather (Peniislyvania) entombed 182 men. Thirty-two bodies have been located and nine rescued alive. The fate of the remainder in the fire_filled mine is uncertain. Rescuers are working. Feared Most Are Dead ONLY 13 ALIVE. (Received May 21, at 7.1 U p.m.,NEW YORK, May 20. Five of the ifinc men rescued al'*ve after the mine explosion lU’e now in hospital, and they are not expected to live. Experts believe that none cf the miners entrapped in the mine will be found alive. All possible aid in the rescue worn has been extended by the Red Cross and other organisations and by the miners. The explosion took place as the day and night men were shifting places, and it caught part of ciuli group below. Th” workers believe that many of the bodies are now hidden in debris. LATER. A message from the mine states that thirteen have now been resell 1 d alive. Thirty bodies have been removed and a like number have bom located. Gas and damp arc hampering the rescue crews, who fear that there arc two hundred dead. LITTLE HOPE FOR MAJORITY. NEW YORK, May 20. At the scene of the mine explosion, thirty-four bodies of miners have been recovered. There is little hope for the balance of the miners, numbering over 120.