MINE GIVES UP ITS DEAD
OLD GOLD SECRET KEPT The Busty seam of the West Stanley Colliery, the scene of Durham County’s worst pit disaster, has given up part of its dead after nearly 24 years, but the pit still holds the secret of a belt of sovereigns worn by one of the victims at the time of the disaster on July 16, 1909, when 168 men and boys were killed. The remains have recently been found of John Rogers. Mr Rogers, a widower, always wore a body belt in which ho carried his savings. He was wearning the belt on the dav of tho disaster and it contained £3O in sovereigns. Officials could discover no trace the money near the pla*ce where Air Rogers’ remains were found. Relatives of Air Rogers have bc?n discovered at South Shields.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 8
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