185 COLLIERS ENTOMBED
LITTLE HOPE OF EESCUE ,
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION WRECKS THE WORKINGS.
By Telegraph—Presa Association—Copyright
(Received May 6, Do p.m.) NEW YORK, May C.
An explosion in a 00111017 at Palos, a small town near Birmingham, in the mining region of Jefferson County, Alabama, entombed a large' number of men.
The first intimation of disaster was tho sudden leap of a sheet of flame from the mouth of the with a tremendous report. A clerk standing a hundred yards away was killed iusantly. It is believed that 185 lives haro been lost.
So far only three bodies have been recovered, and rescue work has had to be abandoned temporarily owing to the presence of the deadly black damp in the workings.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7122, 7 May 1910, Page 1
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