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COLLIERY CALAMITY.
ELEVEN MEN KILLED
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, 'j
(Per Press Association.)
Received June 1, at 10.30 a.m. London, May 31. In a gas explosion at Silkstono colliery, Wharneliffe, eleven men wore killed.
Rescuers after three hours' dangerous work brought injured men to the surface, but they mostly succumbed.
The news caused the breaking up of the cricket match and other sports, and a wild stampede to tho pithead.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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69COLLIERY CALAMITY. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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