SEVEN MEN DROWNED.
MINING PIT DISASTER IN SOUTH WALES. WATER BREAKS THROUGH WORKINGS. DESPERATE RESCUE EFFORTS. RUGBY, May 26. It is feared that seven men have been drowned in a colliery disaster in South Wales. While 20 men of the day shift were at work to-day in the Loveston pit in Pembrokeshire, which only recently had been reopened after several years, water broke through the roof of the workings, which are 600 feet deep. Thirteen of the men succeeded in fighting their way to safety. Rescue work is being feverishly pursued, but owing to the rising -water the difficulties are great. One body has been recovered, but nothing has been seen or heard of Six other men who were trapped.—(British Official Wireless.) HOPE ABANDONED. BROTHER’S HEROIC SACRIFICE. LONDON, May 26. Hope of saving the Loveston coalminers has been abandoned. One could have escaped, but returned into the torrent in an attempt to save his younger brother.
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Wairarapa Age, 28 May 1936, Page 5
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