Wrexham, Sept. 22.
Trapped in the bowels of a flaming coal mine, 272 miners perished to-day what is believed to be one of the: most serious disasters in the recent history of British, mining.
'Nearly 300 miners were underground in the Gresford Colliery this: morning when a terrific explosion occurred, flames immediately enve~ loping a' large section of the workings.
The disaster is the worst in the at" 632 this morning. "He. retuclied from an alr-tanker at Selsey' Bil Sussex, and later again' over "the Haifar aerodrome at Malta. However, shortly after leaving the slond he was forced to return on account of jammed throttle, and" although "he made a safe landing with the under= ferriage up, he dec'ted te abandon he ight when he found that repaire were Mecessary before He could cone is now on his way back to "Tragedy marred the Ost stage of the ight. "The sirtanker which fuelled the Airspeed Courier crashed inva field in Buckinghamshice and Burst into flames, with the result that all ite four occupants were burnt history of mining in North Wales—Reuter.
Wrexham, Sept. 23.
Latest oficial reports place the toll of the Gresford Colliery disaster at 426, although it is Ihsisted in other quarters that many more lives were Tost in the explosion and fire a half-mile underground.
'The oficial figures issued by the mine management say that fifteen bodies have been recovered and that Tiare' still to be in the mine—United Press.
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