Lancashire Colliery Disaster
The sad news reported in to-day's cables of the explosion in the Maypole Colliery, Lancashire, through which it is feared that the lives of seventy-six miners have been…
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Mining & the mines, 1908
832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 42
Lancashire Disaster Explosion in a Colliery. Many Miners Entombed. All Hope Abandoned. London, Aug. 19
A terrible disaster yesterday in the No. 1 Maypole colliery, Abram, Lancashire, resulted, it is feared, in the loss of 76 lives. An explosion occurred in the colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty Bodies Recovered. Three Miners Escape. London, Wednesday afternoon
Pathetic scones were witnessed at the pit's mouth between frenzied relations and their friends. Gangs equipped with special life-saving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Disaster. Many Miners Mutilated. London, Aug. 20
Explorers of the Maypole colliery report that mutilated limbs of the lost were scattered in all directions. Deadly vapours besides the fire, which is still burning,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Eight-hour Bili
All the Mines Regulation Acts which have been passed in Great Britain hitherto have been designed for the promotion of safety, but the Eight-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Settling Mining Troubles
CONSIDERABLE comment has been aroused in certain quarters by the statement which has been made that the Special Mining Court which was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Explosion in a Colliery. Many Miners Entombed. London
A terrible disaster yesterday in the No. 1 Maypole colliery, Abram, Lancashire, resulted, it is feared, in the loss of 76 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Work at the Collieries
Owing to slackness in the coal trade, some of the South Maitland collieries have again experienced a little idle time during the past fortnight, for which the pay will be distributed next Friday…
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Twenty-eight bodies have now been recovered from No. 1 Maypole Colliery, Abram, Lancashire, where an explosion wrecked the mine. The revised death roll is 76. The pit has been flooded to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Disaster. LONDON
There are pathetic scenes at the mouth of the No 1 Maypole Colliery, Abram, Lancashire, where the terrible explosion occurred yesterday, 76 men being entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maypole Colliery Disaster. Mutilated Remains
Explorers of the Maypole colliery report'that mutilated limbs of the lost were scattered in all directions. Deadly vapours besides the fire, which is still…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mountains of Gold
According to old legends, exist in the fabled land of EI Dorado; but all the gold in this marvellous land would not compensate you for the loss of health and life, so likely to happen as the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mining Matters
The export of coal from Newcastle to places beyond the State during the week amounted 78,424 tons, being 8,000 tons below the total for the corresponding period…
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Twenty-eight bodies have now been recovered from No. 1 Maypole Colliery, Abram, Lancashire, where an explosion wrecked, the mine. The revised death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal for the Fleet. 15,000 Tons Required
Contrary to expectations, the American fleet will require about 15,000 tons of coal before proceeding to Albany, where a number of chartered colliers, with about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Mining Accidents. Inquest Opened and Adjourned
At the West Maitland Courthouse this morning, two inquests were opened before the Coroner (Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M.) and juri?s of six each, respecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Mine Flooded. Tapping an Underground Reservoir. Miners Nearly Trapped
The Florence mine Zeehan, near Tasmania, was completedly flooded by a burst of water on Wednesday. The night shift working in the face of the north drive at No. 3 level…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thirty Miners Suffocated
A fire occurred in Haileyville coalmine, Oklahamma. It is believed that 30 miners have been suffocated. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General. Pay at the Collieries
The fortnightly pay drawn by the employees of the East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr collieries this afternoon amounted to £4397 17s 5d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest News by Wire. Sydney, Friday afternoon. Sydney Coal Lumpers
Sydney coal lumpers still refuse to coal the American hospital ship Relief…
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