FIVE MINERS KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received January 30, 2.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 29. Five were killed in a gas explosion in a coal mine at West Frankfort on Friday, but no fire broke out as was reported. Safety measures, it is believed, saved more than 1100 miners from possible injury in the mine, which is one of the largest and most modern in the world. The damage suffered was negligible.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17758, 30 January 1926, Page 9
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