COLLIERY DISASTER
SEVEN FEARED DROWNED MEN TRAPPED P.Y SURGE ONE ROPY RECOVERED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. LL") ji.ni. RU@jBY, May 26. It is feared that seYon men have been drowned in pi enllierv disaster in South Wales. While 20 men of the day shift were, •it work to-day in the Loveston pit in Pembrokeshire, which only recently had been reopened after several years, water broke through the roof of the workings, which .are 600 ft. deep. Thirteen of the men succeeded in fighting their way to safety. Rescue work is being feverishly pursued, but owing to the rising water the difficulties are great. One body has iu-en recovered, but nothing has been seen or heard of six other men who were trapped. Latest reports from tiie scene state that hope oi' saving the miners lias been abandoned. One could have escaped, but lie returned into the torrent, in an attempt to save bis younger brother.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 6
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