FLOODED MINE.
NINE MEN CAUGHT. retreat out off. SUDDEN INRUSH OF WATER. (Australian and N-Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, November 28. Nino miners are imprisoned in a flooded mine near Swansea, Wales. The Daily Express states that a sudden inrush of water occurred in the Dunvant Colliery late last night. The disaster is believed to have been due to the storm which was raging and the heavy rains which accompanied it,
Seventy men succeeded in escaping. Many waded waist-deep in the shaft.
One miner was brought to the surface dead.
The nine men who are still below are known to be in the most Inaccessible part of tho workings. Their retreat is cut off. The survivors report that black damp started, and falls in the roof followed the flood.’ Communication with the oolllery is most difficult, as the wires were blown down during the storm.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 5
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