MINE DISASTERS
OVER TWO HUNDRED DEAD,
PENNSYLVANIAN TRAGEDY
BODIES RECOVERED EVERY HOUR
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received May 24, 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK, May 23.
A message from Mather, Pennsylvania, states that the authorities have abandoned all hope of rescuing any more of the entombed miners alive.
It has been finally estimated that the number dead is 197. The bodies of 164 of these have now been recovered, and 33 are still unaccounted for.
More bodies are being discovered every hour. Some of these are still limp and warm, and indicate that the victims lived many hours after their entombment.
(Australian Press Association.) NEW YORK, May 23
Seventeen miners were killed by an explosion in a coal mine at Yukon, near Bluefield, West Virginia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 7
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