MINING DISASTER.
EIGHT MORE BODIES FOUND. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT. NEW YORK, March 9. A despatch from Eccles, West Virginia, states that the number of known dead through the mine explosion was increased by nine on Tuesday, when the rescue workers broke through the barrier of debris and found eight additional bodies near the shaft bottom. The rescuers redoubled their efforts in the hope of finding alive ‘ some of the twenty others still entombed. A previous message stated that out of sixty-eight miners entombed in mines five and six in the Raleigh County, West Virginia, two were killed. Forty were rescued alive and twenty-six were still ent-ombed. A blast that occurred in mine five spread to mine six, trapping forty others.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 5
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120MINING DISASTER. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 5
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