A COLLIERY DISASTER.
ELEVEN KILLED BY G >S EXPLO- '' 'SION.
DANGEROUS WORK BY RESCUERS.
Press Association .—Telegraph.—Copyright Received Juno 1, 10.30 a.m. r , . LONDON, May 31. in a gas explosion at Silkstone eolliorv, Wharncliffo, eleven wore killed. The rescuers, after three hours’ dangerous hrough the injured men to the surface. but they mostly succumbed. 'The news caused the breaking up of cricket and other sports, niid a wild stampede to the pithead,'
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14307, 1 June 1914, Page 4
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72A COLLIERY DISASTER. Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14307, 1 June 1914, Page 4
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