MINERS KILLED.
APPALLING EXPLOSION. TRAGIC SCENES. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. A message from Aix la Chappelle states that 22 miners were killed, 30 injured, and several hundreds are still entombed, in an appalling explosion in a coal mine near Alsdorf, in which 2000 miners were working, early in the morning. A stock of dynamite near the pithead detonated from some unknown cause, wrecked all the administrative buildings, and. bottled up . the pit’s leading galleries, 1500 feet below the surface. A second explosion beneath the buildings caused further loss of life. Two clerks were killed and thirty injured. After some hours, communication was established by telephone with the entombed miners, whom relief parties are attempting to reach through a neighbouring mine. Hundreds of relatives flocked to the pit-head. There mere tragie scenes as the bodies were brought to the surface. It is officially stated that all- the entombed men are safe. /
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 October 1930, Page 5
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