MINE EXPLOSION.
AN AMERICAN DISASTER. FURTHER DETAILS. HEAVY DEATH ROLL. ij Telegraph.—Pre»g Association.—Copyright. LONDON, April 24. One hundred men are dead at Finlevville. Eighty managed to escape by crawling through a shaft amidst deadly gas. Seventy bodies have been recovered, but after-damp is hampering the rescue work. The fate of twenty men still in the mine is unknown.
The cause of the explosion has not been discovered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10752, 25 April 1913, Page 1
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