A COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 2

A COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT DUR- : HAM. A HUNDRED MEN MISSING. [Pbebb Association— Copyright.] 1 :- - ~London, Feb. 17. 1 A colliery explosion has occurred at ' the West Stanley pit, Durham. . About 147 miners are entombed. 1 A tongue of name destroyed the shafting, and there is no egress. Rappings have since been heard, '; suggesting that the; men in one ,of the four seams are..stilLaliye. :' •. ■■';' '"■' Of- the 147 entombed miners »r the " West Stanley: colliery , 37 ; have., been " .rescued. '■'lt is feared that the remam--1 der have perished. • ;'..-.[ The majority of the survivors were i sayed through remainiflgin a by-way L until the gases had cleared. Many ; bodies have been badly burned and mutilated/ ■•■■■■' ■ • ,-•■