MASS OF ICE CRASHES ON MINE CAGE
THAW CAUSES THREE MENS’ DEATHS, WARMER WEATHER IN ENGLAND. SKATING AT AN END. Received ,11.5 a.in.) LONDON, fob. 01. After ten tlpya’ icy conchtions Lon. doners to-day revelled in a temperature of seventy in the sun, but to thousands it. means extreme discoin. torture, the thawing of frozen pipes revealing hitherto undetected bursts which flood the houses. The thaw was responsible tor a mass of ice crashing down on an ascending cage at the Bestowad colliery at Nottingham, crushing the roof anil killing two ana injuring three miners. The warmth (.suddenly ended the skating boom. It is revealed that for some days the four Royal brothers daily skated on the lake in the Palace ground.
(Received 11.5 a.m.( ATHENS', Feb
Freezing following Hoods converted 150,000 acres near the Turkish border into a ]K)lar waste. Many unman, beings and cattle wiero drowned, and seven villages were overwhelmed beneath 50 feet of snow. Aeroplanes are dropping food.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 40, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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