WELSH COLLIERY CATASTROPHE.
;150 MEN ENTOMBED. [PKB FBBSi ASSOCIATION.] London, May 24. By a colliery explosion atCai rpt.illy, in Waits, 150 miners were entombed. Intense anxiety is felt f,r their safety. Received 25, G. 30 p m. London, May 25. Three miners havo been rescued, acd many bodies recovered. LATER DETAILS. Received 27, 12.41 a.m. London, May 26. Ditails from Caerphily s v -ow tint the majority of the night wotkers ascendeJ, ltavii'g seventy in tie pt. Three explosioqs occurred ueer the upcast shaft. The gangways became ctoied with the ruins, and fire-damp almost suffocated the first explorers.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 110, 27 May 1901, Page 3
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