SIXTY-THREE MEN KILLED
...-U U" GA S’ EXPLOSION IN MINE# ; HEAVY BLOW TO VILLAGE . ' TWO HUNDRED; ORPHANS By Telegraph—Press- Assn.—Copyright.' New York, December 17. Sixty-three bodies were found in «; ' • gas-filled-chamber 5000 feet below the surface- after a- frightful explosion at the Oldtown ’coal : mine,' • near McAlister, OkiaEdmaJ;;',Twp-.miners escaped alive, the remainder being ’ suffocated-by gae, , ; (groups of screaming, sobbing women • . and-children gathered at the . entrance to the mine.. The;majority of the miners;.', were married,.and have left nearly 200 r children., A Red- Cross-appropriation of ■ .20,000' dollars is-requested for the im* '' mediat e care' of - th e bereaved.'
The mine- authorities believe '.that all . the men for,
. Relief workers, after spending'the, day in endeavouring, to. save- the; miners, Q< turned their efforts to aid. the hysterical, grief-stricken families of the mining vilj' ; lage; who interrupted -by the z tragedyin.the midst of their preparations " to celebrate Christmas. . . • ■'
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1929, Page 11
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