DISASTER IN A COLLIERY.
INDIANA EXPLOSION. FIFTY-NINE MINERS KILLED. . # SAD SCENES AT PITHEAD. By 'lelesrapb—Press Association—Copyright (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Feb. 21. Fifty-nine miners were killed by a gas explosion in the City Coal Company's mine at Sulhvan, Indiana. It is reported that 23 bodies have been recovered. Rescue parties arc fighting the fumes in an attempt to recover the remainder. Women and children are weeping at the pit-head in the drizzling rain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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77DISASTER IN A COLLIERY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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