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WIDOWED AND ORPHANED.
THE COLLIERY DISASTER. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. VER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received May 23, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, May 22. The Whitehaven Colliery fund has reached £12,500. The fund has been opened for the relief of the families of the miners in the Wellington pit, where 133 men are entombed at a point beneath the sea inaccessible to rescuers owing to a raging fire and noxious gases. All hope of rescue has been abandoned.
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Mataura Ensign, 23 May 1910, Page 5
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75WIDOWED AND ORPHANED. Mataura Ensign, 23 May 1910, Page 5
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