MINE DISASTER.
OVER EIGHTY CASUALTIES.
SEVERAL HUNDRED MEN ENTOMBED BUT SAFE.
;DYNAMITE WRECKS BUILDINGS AND BLOCKS PIT.
{By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 21.
A message from Aix la Chapelle states that 22 miners were killed and 30 injured, while several hundred are still entombed, as the result of an appalling explosion in a coal mine near Alsdorf, in which 2000 men were working early in the morning. A stock of dynamite near the pithead detonated through an unknown wrecked all the administrative buildings, and bottled up the pit and the leading galleries 1500 feet below the surface.
A second explosion beneath the building caused further loss of life. Two vderks were killed and 30 injured. After some hours communication was ■established by telephone with the entombed miners, whom relief parties are attempting to reach through a neighbouring mine.
Hundreds of relatives flocked to the 3)it-head and there were tragic scenes as the bodies were brought to the surface.
It is officially stated that all the entombed men are safe.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 October 1930, Page 5
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174MINE DISASTER. Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 October 1930, Page 5
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