INDIAN COLLIERY FIRE
HUGE LOSS OF LIFE SEARCH PARTIES ENTRAPPED (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 31st January. The “News-Chronicle’s” Calcutta correspondent says that five Europeans and 200 Indians are reported to have perished in an underground fire in the Loyabad colliery at Jharia, Bihar. These include three rescue parties.
The first sign of the disaster was when flames burst from two pitheads. Senior British officials immediately went down to investigate and never returned. A search party met a similar fate. Undaunted, a third group went, down and did not return. The fire is still blazing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 7
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