GAS EXPLOSION
IN YORKSHIRE COLLIERY MANY BODIES BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE. ft/ Telefrapb—Press Association —Copy rich' LONDON, May 31. By a gas explosion at the Silkstone Colliery, at Wharncliffe, Yorkshire, eleven men were killed. The rescuers, after three hours’ dangerous work, brought men who were overcome by the gas fumes to the surface, but they nearly all succumbed.
The news caused the breaking up of cricket and other sports, and there was a wild stampede to the pithead. -
SURVIVOR'S STOBX'
(Received June 2, 0-5 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. May Cock, a survivor of the Wharncliffe disaster, states that she was boring with others in a by-way when a noise occurred and a mighty wind carried them into the mainway. They were badly stunned. Great flames rushed hy, scorching her face, and her clothes went ablaze, but were extinguished. She crawled along the bottom and communicated, with officials. The rescuers found others suffocated by afterdamp. The pit was regarded as the-safest in Yorkshire.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8748, 2 June 1914, Page 6
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