MINE EXPLODES KILLING 31 MEN 3 ARE INJURED.
RESCUE PARTIES WORK REMOVING TONS OF DEBRIS FROM BODIES AT RAVENSDALE, WASH - FLAMES FILL WHOLE SHAFT WHEN COAL DUST BLOWS UP - ODIES ARE SEARED BY FIRE; ENTIRE STRUCTURE SHATTERED BY THE FORCE OF CONCUSSION.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 17. -- Rescue parties which had been laboring in ninety minute shifts all night were still at work early today endeavoring to recover the bodies of twenty-five men buried under tons of debris in the third level of the Northwestern Improvement Company's coal mine at Ravensdale, thirty-five miles southeast of here. An explosion in the mine yesterday killed thirty-one men and injured three others.
For more information go to www.gendisasters.com - choose Washington and then click on Mining Disasters. Next click on the location of the mine and date of the occurrence.
RESCUE PARTIES WORK REMOVING TONS OF DEBRIS FROM BODIES AT RAVENSDALE, WASH - FLAMES FILL WHOLE SHAFT WHEN COAL DUST BLOWS UP - ODIES ARE SEARED BY FIRE; ENTIRE STRUCTURE SHATTERED BY THE FORCE OF CONCUSSION.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 17. -- Rescue parties which had been laboring in ninety minute shifts all night were still at work early today endeavoring to recover the bodies of twenty-five men buried under tons of debris in the third level of the Northwestern Improvement Company's coal mine at Ravensdale, thirty-five miles southeast of here. An explosion in the mine yesterday killed thirty-one men and injured three others.
For more information go to www.gendisasters.com - choose Washington and then click on Mining Disasters. Next click on the location of the mine and date of the occurrence.
MINE EXPLODES KILLING 31 MEN 3 ARE INJURED.
RESCUE PARTIES WORK REMOVING TONS OF DEBRIS FROM BODIES AT RAVENSDALE, WASH - FLAMES FILL WHOLE SHAFT WHEN COAL DUST BLOWS UP - ODIES ARE SEARED BY FIRE; ENTIRE STRUCTURE SHATTERED BY THE FORCE OF CONCUSSION.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 17. -- Rescue parties which had been laboring in ninety minute shifts all night were still at work early today endeavoring to recover the bodies of twenty-five men buried under tons of debris in the third level of the Northwestern Improvement Company's coal mine at Ravensdale, thirty-five miles southeast of here. An explosion in the mine yesterday killed thirty-one men and injured three others.
For more information go to www.gendisasters.com - choose Washington and then click on Mining Disasters. Next click on the location of the mine and date of the occurrence.
RESCUE PARTIES WORK REMOVING TONS OF DEBRIS FROM BODIES AT RAVENSDALE, WASH - FLAMES FILL WHOLE SHAFT WHEN COAL DUST BLOWS UP - ODIES ARE SEARED BY FIRE; ENTIRE STRUCTURE SHATTERED BY THE FORCE OF CONCUSSION.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 17. -- Rescue parties which had been laboring in ninety minute shifts all night were still at work early today endeavoring to recover the bodies of twenty-five men buried under tons of debris in the third level of the Northwestern Improvement Company's coal mine at Ravensdale, thirty-five miles southeast of here. An explosion in the mine yesterday killed thirty-one men and injured three others.
For more information go to www.gendisasters.com - choose Washington and then click on Mining Disasters. Next click on the location of the mine and date of the occurrence.
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