SECOND DISASTER EXPLOSION IN GERMAN MINE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 October 1930, Page 4

SECOND DISASTER

EXPLOSION IN GERMAN MINE

r4fir OVER 100 FEARED DEAD f f

NINETY MEN STILL .MISSING

llfnitr.M Press Association—By Electrics Telegraph

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LONDON, Oct. 26.

It is feared that over 100 are dead ax Maybach mine, near Saarbrueken, Germany. Twenty .dead have been, brought to the surface, and 90 are still missing. It is believed the/e is -little chance of rescuing them alive. One miner states the -catastrophe was caused by the exploding of a petrol locomotive in a side gallery, which, in turn exploded coal dust. Dense .clouds cif yellow smoke have appeared on the surface, indicating that the galleries are on fire.

News of the -Maybach disaster reached Alsdorf -while 150,0-00 people were attending the funeral of the 300 victims of Tuesday’s catastrophe. The burial lasted some hours, during which several hundred Communists appeared in the market place and played -Communists airs. They came into collision with the police, who dispersed them.

HOPE FOR ENTOMBED MEN -vJrij ABANDONED. J

, Received 10 a.m., to-day. BERLIN, Oct. 26. Twenty-three of those injured, at Saarbruecken have died and- 2l have recovered. Hope for the entombed 90 has been abandoned..