BIG COLLIERY DISASTER.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
TBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables.
Berlin, January 30.
An explosion of fire-damp occurred at the Achenbach colliery, Westphalia. Six men are known to have been killed and several injured.
Eighty men are still entombed in the works.
Twenty-two dead bodies have been recovered, also seventeen of the injured, of whom ten are in a grievous condition.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1914, Page 5
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