The Colliery Explosion
A GEEAT CATASTROPHE-
175 BODIES RECOVERED.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.:
LONDON', Jane 25. The bodies recovered from the colliery at Ponty-Pridd were scalded, and in many instances heads or limbs had been blown off, and in others the clothes stripped from the corpses by the force of tbe explosion. One group was found of twentyfive men who had evidently been overtaken by after- damp, and other groups who had shared the same fate were discovered in various parts of the mine.
One hundred and seventy-five bodies have been recovered bo far, and it is feared the remainder of those below are dead.
There are signs that at least one awful explosion occurred, and ifc is believed instant death was the fate of tboee exposed to its fury.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2755, 26 June 1894, Page 2
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129The Colliery Explosion Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2755, 26 June 1894, Page 2
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