EXPLOSION IN COLLIERY
ELEVEN MINERS KILLED. By Electric Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, May 31. By a gas explosion at the Silkstone colliery, at Wharneliffe, 11 were killed. Rescuers, after three hours' dangerous work, brought the injured men to the surface but they succumbed. The news caused the breaking up of ciicket and other sports, and a wild stampede to the pithead. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Received 12.5 a.m. LONDON, June 1. Cock, a survivor of the Wharncliff disaster, states that he was boring with others in a by-way. There was a noise and a mighty wind carried him into the main way. He was badly stunned and a great flame badly scorched his face. His clothes were ablaze but he extinguished them and crawled along the bottom and communicated with the officials. The rescuers found the others suffocated by after-damp. The pit w*s regarded as the safest in Yorkshire.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12806, 2 June 1914, Page 8
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