HOPE ABANDONED
U.S.A. MJNE DISASTER.
MORE BODIES DISCOVERED. if SOME STILL WARM. '', United Press Assn. —By Electric v ; : Telegraph Copyright. (Received 8.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 23. 1 A message from Mather states that the authorities have abandoned all 'hope of rescuing any more entombed 1 miners alive. It is finally estimated the i number of dead is 197. The bodies of 161 of these have now been recovered and tlhirty-tlhree are still UiViccounted for, but more bodies are being ' discovered hourly. Some of these are still limi> and Warm and indicated that the victims lived many hours after entombment. —Australian Press Assn.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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103HOPE ABANDONED Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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