Tokyo, May 30.
Fifty-two miners were trapped in the Kokura Coal Mine in Kyushu when one of the shafts caved in. Although 13 were rescued, the rest are buried in the debris and only slight hope is held for their lives.
At the time of the mine accident, it is also reported, districts around Hozenji-cho began to cave in and the local mutual aid bodies had to be mobilised to take care of the refugees. Mud banks and slopes in the affected area collapsed immediately after the lind started to sink and nearly 100 houses were buried.
The mine disaster is attributed to a wrong course being taken by the workers in the new mine and the penetration of a wall shutting off one of the shafts of the old mine, filled with water which broke out and flooded the mines.—Havas.
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