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COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
TEN MEN SUFFOCATED.
HEROIC RESCUER KILLED.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (Received April 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 10. An explosion occurred at Norton Hill colliery, in Somerset, last night. The thirty men on night shift were* below, Twenty escaped, but the remaining ten were suffocated, despite repeated, heroic attempts to rescue them. . Many of the rescue workers werei carried out insensible. One was killed while attempting a rescue. v •
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13673, 11 April 1908, Page 5
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71COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13673, 11 April 1908, Page 5
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