MATHER DISASTER
DEATH ROLt ONE RESCUED ALIVE. HOPE FOR SOME OTHERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.! (Australian Prer.s Association.) (Received May 23, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 22. A message from Mather states that the total of the known dead in the mine "disaster Is now 92. Hope is held for some of the remaining 130 entombed men with the discovery of a miner, Frank Buosha, who was found sitting on a pail. "Where have you been?" he asked. "I have been here three days now, if you had not come soon something would have ■ choked me." He had sufficient strength to leave the stretcher upon reaching the surface. Relief squads are working frantically. Two miners whose story Is given crodenoe say they saw a cutting machine sever an electric cable. The sparks thus caused ignited the gas and coal-dust below and a series of explosions followed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17409, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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