MINE ON FIRE
A HUNDRED MEN ENTOMBED. By Telegraph—TTo3a Association—Copyright (Received December 11, 0.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. An explosion in tho main mine of the cross mountain system, Knoxville, Kentucky, entombed probably a hundred miners. Throngs of women and children are besieging tho shaft-mouth. Throe of the entombed men escaped by a lateral shaft. Rescue parties were driven out by tho flames without seeing any signs of the victims. Little is expected to be done till the fire is subdued.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7980, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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82MINE ON FIRE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7980, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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