DEATH-ROLL MOUNTING.
BENTLEY MINE DISASTER. HOPE ABANDONED FOR FIVE ENTOMBED MEN. WHOLE STREETS OF BEREAVED HOUSEHOLDS. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 22. Hope of rescuing the five entombed miners at Bentley has been abandoned, ! and, with to-day’s deaths in hospital, the death-roll is. now 42. Seven injured men are still in a critical condition. The stricken village of Bentley is bowed under the blow. There are whole streets where nearly every home is bereaved. iSome of the inhabitants, still clinging to hope, waited all day in a thick fog at the pithead for news of those entombed, until, with the advent of darkness, it was announced that it was impossible to reach them. Cables describing the disaster at the Bentley colliery, near Doncaster, appear on page 7,
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 November 1931, Page 5
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