MINING DISASTERS

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1928, Page 5

MINING DISASTERS

THE MATHER HORROR

RECOVERY OF 164 BODIES.

'SOME LIVED MANY HOURS,

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 0 a.m.) -NEW YORK, May 23

So far 120 bodies of victims of the explosion and fire have been recovered from the Mather mine. Ninety-two. of these have been identified. Eightysix are still missing.

A later message from Mather states that the authorities have abandoned all hope of rescuing any more entombed miners alive.

It is finally estimated that the number of the dead is 197. The bodies of 164 of these have now been recovered and 33 are . still unaccounted for, but more bodies are being ’discovered hourly.

Some of the latter are still limp and warm and indicate that the victims lived many hours after entombment.

YUKON EXPLOSION.

SEVENTEEN KILLED

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, May* 23. Seventeen miners .-were killed by an Tsxplosion in a coal mine at Yukon, near Bluefield, West Virginia. ROOF CAVES IN. MINER BURIED. HIS MATE JUMPS CLEAR. DUNEDIN, This Day. While working in the Shag Point coal mine, William James Robinson, aged 36, single, was buried under a fall of earth and killed. He was erecting a staging, in company .with a workmate, when six tons of earth fell from above. His workmate jumped clear. Robinson-s body was recovered after three hours. —Press Assn.