HOPE ABANDONED.
THE WHITEHAVEN DISASTER. PIT MAY BE SEALEDBy Telegraph—Prep* AsHOftiation—Copy righl Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 7. 9.27 a.m.) LONDON. September 0. Hope of saving the entombed men in the Whitehaven Pit disaster has been abandoned. Gas and falls of rock, foiled the rescuers. Twenty-five bodies have been recovered. It is feared that the pit will have to be sealed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16832, 7 September 1922, Page 7
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