THE BORUSSIU MINE DISASTER.
RECOVERY OF TWENTY-TWO BODIES. Reoeived May 6, 4.55 p.m. BERLIN, May 5. Twenty-two corpses haffe been found in the Borussiu miue in Westphalia. There are indications that the men starved to death after the explosion in June. They caulked all the crevices with strips of clothes to prevent the in-., rush of gases. The explorers an the surface, as ijappenod in connection with the Courrieres disaster, early relinquished all hope of rescuing the miners.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8133, 7 May 1906, Page 5
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78THE BORUSSIU MINE DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8133, 7 May 1906, Page 5
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