INDIAN MINING DISASTER
DEATHS IN COLLIERY FIRE DELHI, February 2. Owing to fire and an air blast, which occurred during attempts to isolate the earlier fire, 40 men are missing or dead, including the four senior and two subordinate European officials, at the Loyabad Colliery. The Government announced it had learned that ’45 -serious fires are burning in tthe Sharia coalfield. They are engaging Official attention. ■Mining experts are to confer on Feb--19, and they are expected to disto prevent further BragMUbo fires, and also' the possithe P° rti ons affected HraHß|W:ing through to a river flooding the including doctors collieries, heroicinjured men, five of surface in the Loya- ■ were over- . could not reach : victims. Shafts ’ owing to the '
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Northern Advocate, 3 February 1936, Page 4
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119INDIAN MINING DISASTER Northern Advocate, 3 February 1936, Page 4
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