130 Entombed Mefi Beyond Aid:
90 Bodies Recovered: Casualties May Exceed 200
Dortmund, Feb. 12.
'AI hope of rescuing any of the 130 entombed miners has been abandoned: A-rumper of would-be rescuers have been overcome. by poisonous gases. There were harrowing scenes all day and all night at the pit mouth, where weeping wives and children waited for the bringing up of the bodies. Many of the dead were badly burnt but scores did not show any. injun indicating suffocation by the fume The Chancellor, Dr. Lather, [going to the scene of the disaster.
The total number of deaths probably will exceed the record of the Radbob disaster in 1908, when 230 persons were killed.
All the theatres in the Ruhr are closed. The news of the disaster has caused a profound sensation throughout Germany. Herr Loebe (Socialist) in moving terms referred to the event in the Reichstag, all the members, including the Communists, reverently standing up.
The majority of the dead were married. One family lost the father and five brothers.
The cause of the disaster, it is reported, was firedamp.
The Ministerstein mine was reided as the most efficient and the fest in the Ruhr. It employs 3,000 men and the yearly output is 1,000,- togue, Feb, 12
Ninety dead have been recovered from the Dortmund mine out of those republic being considered on whether a treaty with the Soviet
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