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I Awful Scenes Underground. Received March 12, 5.24 a.m. PARIS. March 11. The latest roll in connection with the disaster is as follows : — Rescued, 591. Asphyxiated' or burned to death, 1219. . • f The recent heavy rains in the north of France produced land slips and apparently these affected the mines. First accounts suggested that twenty miners were killed. Later in the afternoon further rescue was aban domed and the extent of the disaster was realised, though there were faint hopes that some had taken refuge m the lateral galleries. Many were' .rescued, but they were frightfully burnt. , The chief engineer led a band of fifty rescuers. He declares the scenes below are awful. A second rescue party reached a depth of five hundred feet and heard their mates calling at the six hundred feet level. The lower galleries were inaccessible.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8136, 12 March 1906, Page 5
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