AMERICAN COLLIERY DISASTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14683, 17 November 1909, Page 5

AMERICAN COLLIERY DISASTER

ENTOMBED MEN ALIVE. ENGINEER'S UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE. Press Association—By Telesrapk-CopyrigH NEW YORK, November 15. The watcher.; at the Cherry pit mouth have heard imifllcd reports. It is believed that tho entombed men arc firing signals, bllt it is invpce-ible to reopen the "mine lwfore Tuesday. RESCUERS. LOSE THEIR LIVES. ANOTHER OUTBREAK OF FIRE. 13 ORPHANS. NEW YORK, ■ 16. (Received Nov. 16, at 9.10 p.m.) Thirteen members out. of a search parly of 14 p?rishod owing to Mr Gawky, an eng'iK'er, ■implicitly cbcying orders to hoist, (he (ago only in response lo tiv. regulation, cede signals. The signal bell •rang wildly, and his comrades in'plorcd Mi C.'itvley to raise ihc cage. , iUiinwhilc the flames overtook the party ( and ii:chi;rai«l all but one. The survivor state- that when Hearing the shift he passed 65 men sitting in a. row alj;ig the gallery, resignedly awaiting death. h'e tried to arouse them to attempt to escape, but thoy would not Stir. A [rodi culbicak of fire of increased violence, tool; place yc-'tcrday, and the shaft, was again sealed. The H.ipcn vci-eae have now been abandon 211. As a usuit of ti>s disaster 1000 children ane orphans..