The Colliery Explosion.
- — ♦ 175 BODIES RECOVERS!*. London, June 25. The bodies recovered from the colliery at Pontypridd were Bcalded, and m many instances the heads and limbs had beea blown off, and m others the clothes were stripped from the corpses by the force of the explosion. One group was found of twentytave men who had evidently been overtaken by the after-damp, and other groups, who had shared the same fate were discovered m various parts of the mine. A hundred and seventy-five bodies have been recovered so f tar, and it is feared the remainder of those below are dead. There are signß that afc least one awful explosion occurred, and it i» believed instantaneous was the fate of those exposed to its fury.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7012, 26 June 1894, Page 2
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125The Colliery Explosion. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7012, 26 June 1894, Page 2
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