London, Oct, 11.
Robert Kershaw, the sole survivor lout of the 20 miners in the tragedy which occurred" yesterday in the Plank Lane colliery at Leigh, Lan-Jeashire, told the story of his al most. miraculous escape from death.
'Through a defect in the winding Jgear, (he said) the shaft which was aking the men to the bottom of the mine, crashed to a level of 1,500 lect, entering a drainage sump: [The' men who were not, killed the fall were drowned. He hims threw open the cage door just before the shaft fell into the water, jand jumped clear out of it, Ale Though he was not injured, he is suffering severely from the shock, The rescue party with three doctors immediately " descended with apparatus for artificial respiration.
fey worked in vain on the men for lover two hours.
Since the accident, all work has Iieen stopped in the five pits which belong to the same ownership, and 2,000 miners are idle a n result, Hundreds of men and women sur rounded the colliery gates and piti-{ful "scenes were witnessed one the names of the victims were announced.
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