COLLIERY DISASTER.
100 MINERS ENTOMBED
NO-HOPE!'-OF' RESCUE
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Reecived^Decqmber 11, 12.30 a.m. n'^ TEW YORK, Dec. 10
An explosion,in the, main mine<of' the Gross Mjjyutftin 'system, Knoxville, entombed probtv'jjily 100 miners. Throngs of women attc]''children aro beseiging the shaft moutlpv. Three entombed men escaped 'thro^iigll shaft. Rescue parties were driven out by the flames without seeing^ signs of the victims. Little- is expected to be done till the fire is subdued./ i
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 11 December 1911, Page 5
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