WELSH MINING DISASTER
LONDON, November 17. The Senghenydd (Wales) Colliery disaster relief fund has reached £IOO,OOO. November 18. Three hundred bodies have now been recovered from tho Senghenydd mine, and the exploring parties have concluded their search. They found everywhere evidence of the struggle the victims made to escape. It was heartrending to see the dead lying together in groups with the coats closely wrapped over their mouths and heads, endeavouring to hide themselves from the fearful after damp. The commotion must have been terrible and the excitement agonising, as for a workman to walk in to-day and carry out a body is in itself an heroic achievement. Food carried was uneaten in every case, indicating speedy deaths from suffocation. November 24. An amount of £2975 has been added to the funds in connection with the Senghenydd mining disaster as the result of the exhibition of the gifts presented to Prince Arthur of Connaught and tho Duchess of Fyfe on the occasion of their marriage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3115, 26 November 1913, Page 26
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