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DISASTER JUST AFTER

... An appeal to industrialists • of the Red Lion public-house and shift. Nearly 3.000 tons of coal are every th - farmers to make early application Drayton, a short distance from e! los , scene of the disaster. day e pit is idle. for supplementary petrol tor ...

Published: Tuesday 05 March 1957
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1686 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Twenty-nine killed in another German pit explosion

... second pit disaster 'in West Germany in just over a Wadsworth w I fmonth. In the first., at Saar*%* Ibruecken. about 300 men were .- Fashions in footwear was the Killed In an explosion in the tétlebof a tal}c gllive‘;i by Cénm. H. H. Luisenthal Pit, rabtree ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1962
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DEATH ROLL IN PIT WAS PUT AT 74

... DEATH ROLL IN PIT WAS PUT AT 74 Springhill. Nova Scotia. I ADA MARGARET SHAKESHAFT (22), housewife, was Nfonday. remanded in custody for a week at North London red h , Three more bodies were carried. f s att e Court to-day on charge s in connection with ...

Published: Monday 03 November 1958
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 995 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PIT CAGE BUMP INJURES 38 MEN

... case of The !Yee disaster 'Just a smile man's should also have some lnt.Mation. pensioners and those with . . badge of office. TOWN.-On January 29. 1952. Rhoda . . Wilfred Windle t 40i:fixed inconies is not so harm. .a. ri l eiE disaster was of such se ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1952
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5310 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Crowds seek news of missing relatives after hurricane disaster – Box of matches in tin of pears

... Crowds seek news of missing relatives after hurricane disaster - Box of matches in tin of pears THE frequency with which consumers find foreign bodies in food is called “ a disturbing feature of modern food manufacture by the Association of Public Health ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1965
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

1 78 DEA D, 82 MISSING IN , AUSTRIAN AVALANCHES WELSH PIT •.. Villages crushed 25 ) 000 EXPLOSION:

... 1 78 DEA D, 82 MISSING IN , AUSTRIAN AVALANCHES WELSH PIT •.. Villages crushed 25 ) 000 EXPLOSION: . 12 BADLY and buried deep AT START OF WIGAN BURNED . After an explosion at the South under snow CLASH Glyncorravg. near Port Talbot. Neat passing by the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1954
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1926 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

French radio and TV dispute

... Colliery disaster last September, in Haigh treasurer. The meeting ass folowed by supper. which 47 miners died. a haulage man controlling the movements of the three bogies on which the men were ;found, said that before they gent into the pit workings ; ...

Published: Monday 04 January 1960
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 724 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MINERS BRINGING UP LAST OF THEIR DEAD Underground blast scene like waxworks, rescuer tells MEN DIED IN GROUPS ..

... —Reuter. SILENT stretcher bearers, grimy and tired-eyed, today were bringing the last of the 45 men killed in yesterday's pit disaster at Six Bells, Abertillery, to the surface. By early afternoon 37 bodies had been brought up. Not all had been ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1960
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

present Instead – the 'DANGEROUS MAN' SENT TO PRISON

... his hands round her throat. She said that she began to see a red mist, but managed to struggle. free. Constable W. J. Wood said that Thompson was entombed for four, days after a pit disaster. in 1941: and afterwards had nervous: trouble. He had been sentenced ...

Published: Tuesday 02 March 1954
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

and Guardian

... Can on! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1157 No. 24,714 work few minutes at a time PIT RESCUE TEAMS BRAVE , EXTENSIVE GAS POCKETS Conditions reported bad, ; after explosion disaster , 17 MINERS DIED ALL , Magistrates FROM ONE SMALL TOWN amazed at R ESCUE teams ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1957
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I ;SATURDAY ft WORKING IDURING 'SUMMER? - 1, Coal production talks Miners' leaders and represents- 4 tires of ..

... ti killed in the disaster there last September. Nineteen of the men were buried In Cresswell to-day. J 1 Child choked to death I; by stud : Court Three - year - old Irene Vella choked to death after Troeobar. 4 to 1 liest a small red stud while Co‘tre ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1951
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 672 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

JUNE 6, 1958 Thirlwell, three down, fights back

... JUNE 6, 1958 Thirlwell, three down, fights back DISASTER came early in the Senior international T.T. in the Isle of Man to-day. Desmond Douglas Wolff (32), Of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, was killed instantly when he crashed 12 miles after the Start ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1958
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: 12 | Tags: none