EIGHT MINERS KILLED
EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY RESCUZ WORK FRUSTRATED GALLANT EFFORTS MADE British Official Wireless. Rugby, July 10. Eight lives were lost to-day in an explosion at Milhraen colliery, Blaenavon, South Wales. About 60 men were working in the pit at the time. Four were killed outright and four others were trapped below, Hope of their rescue was abandoned only after the gallant efforts of rescue parties had been frustrated by. poisonous gasses and falls of the roof.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1929, Page 11
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