COLORADO MIME DISASTER.
DIFFICULTIES OF RESCUE WORK.
A SOI-T-iRY SURVIV'JR
Press Ass.-.ciati.-.n—Electric Telegraph-Copyright. Received Thursday, 5.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Wednesday. The victims of the e.-plosiou in the Colorado Coal aud Iron Company's mine were slaves aud Italians and Hungarians. The shaft was hopelessly shattered, Tlie first rescuers wore oxygen helmets aud penetrated n short distance, but became exhausted. Twenty-four bodies brought to the surface were so charred as to be beyond identification. The only survivor was found beneath a quantity of earth aud timber.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9593, 3 February 1910, Page 5
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