MINING DISASTER
SIXTEEN MEN ENTOMBED. NO HOPE OF RESCUE. COAL MINE ON FIRE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. o, 11.10 a.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. A Pittsburgh message states that after an explosion in a coal mine near there on Wednesday sixteen miners wee'r unaccounted for. Rescue workers have now abandoned hope that any are alive, and in order to smother - tlie fire, which has been raging for hours, they have sealed off the entry whet© the' victims are entombed. Two miners escaped, and the bodies of three have been recovered. —lleuter. An earlier message stated that three men were killed and 21 entombed through an explosion at the Pittsburg Terminal Coal Corporation’s colliery.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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