TERRIFIC FORCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18087, 7 August 1936, Page 6

TERRIFIC FORCE

EXPLOSION IN COLLIERY INJURIES TO MINERS DOCTOR’S DESCRIPTION MEN STILE ENTOMBED

(British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1 p.m. RUG BA, Aug. 0. A man injured in I lie explosion at Ihe Wliarneliffe. M’ondmoor colliery, near Bardsley. has been brought to the surface, but is 100 seriously hurl to give an account- of what happened, lit 1 was found three-quarters of a mile From where the explosion occurred, and his injuries indicate the terrific force of the explosion. One of the doctors assisting 1 lie rescue parties, which have been culling their way through falls of roof in order to get into the affected area, •aid on reluming to the surface that many bodies were found lerriblv injured and these men must have been l.illod bv the violence of the explosion, ’i’lie attitudes of others suggested suffocation by gas. Gaptain 11. I l ’. <Hrookshnnk, the Secretary for Mines, arrived during Ihe afternoon at I lie jilt head, where all day ,a crowd of over 8000 waited anxiously for news from below. The vicar of the parish conducted arayers this evening. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has telegraphed a message of sympathy to the families and friends of those who have so tragically lost lives. It is believed that 81 were killed of the 58 who were entombed.