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DEMOLITION OF FOUNDRY FIVE MEN KILLED. FORTY OTHERS INJURED. (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 1 A message from New Britain, Coni necticut, states that five men ! ported dead and nearly 40 injured as a result of an explosion which demolished a foundry today.—Reuter. COLLIERY DISASTER. SIXTEEN MEN ENTOMBED. RESCUE APPEARS HOPELESS. (Received 10.56 a.m.) > NEW YORK, February 4. A message from Pittsburg says that, as the result of an explosion in a coal mine near that city, 21 men were entombed. Of these two managed to escape, and the bodies of three others) have been found. The rescue workers have now abandoned hope that any of the remaining 16 are alive, and in order to smother I a fire which has been ranging for hours they have sealed off the entry whore the victims are located.—Reuter.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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