EXPLOSION IN COLLIERY.
ELEVEN MEN KILLED
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received June 1, 10.10 a.m.) . > • . ' LONDON, May 31. In a ' gas explosion at Silkstone colliery, Wharncliffe, eleven persons were killed. The rescuers, after three hours' dangerous work, brought the injured on to the surface, but most of them succumbed. The news caused the breaking up of cricket and other, sports, and a wild stampede to the -pithead.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 3
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