CWM DISASTER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 March 1927, Page 5

CWM DISASTER

MORE BODIES RECOVERED. TEN TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR A PAINFUL INCIDENT.

BV OABJiE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIG HI LONDON, March 3. As the. result of yesterday’s work at Cwm, the rescuers broke through the black vein fall and recovered 19 bodies. The opening released poisonous gases, threatening the whole pit, but the resellers, in gas masks, crawling on hands and knees, reached the huddled heaps of bodies, which they hope to bring to the surface early this morning. Ten remain to be accounted for. The “Daily Herald” (Labour) editorial'y describes the demonstration against the lit. Hon. Stanley Baldwin as a painful incident. The motives of Mr Baldwin and his wife in visiting the scene of grief were kindly and human. Thrir personal sorrow was manifest and evident, but to the people of Cwm the present was linked with the past. The Prime Minister's part in the lock-out was remembered, hence the outburst of feeling. BRINGING UP THE DEAD. DISTRESSING SCENES. LONDON, March 2. Again the monotonous cage brought up body after body. All were reverently placed in coffins. Mothers _ and wives, fathers and sons, grief-strioken and out of work, wearily waiting, knowing full well that hope was gone, wept silently. The sight was sufficient to make' the stoutest heart quail. Although there are many theories, the cause of the explosion is still 1 unknown. and is unlikely to be solved until thousands of tons of debris covering the seat of the explosion are cleared. It is probable that this will be a long time, because the place is a seething mass. The majority'of deaths .was due to deadly black damn, which is worse than any gas .procured in war time, nndi can overcome a- strong man in less than three minutes ASSISTANCE FROM NEW ZEALAND. HAMILTON RESIDENT’S GENEROSITY. HAMILTON. March 3. Practical sympathy with the relatives of the victims, of the two coalmine disasters in England' this week was expressed to-day bv Mr F. W. Burley,* a well-known Hamilton resident. who hag instructed his hank manager to cable to the Prime Minister in England asking him to accept hi s sympathy and far war ding £SOO for the relatives of the men lost in the disaster.