... PIT RESCUE Though we are all more or less aware of the hazards of the miner’s life, an occurrence such as the tense drama at Knockshinnoch Castle pit suddenly gives a sharp edge to that awareness. The leasts imaginative person must be moved by a tragic ...

... GREAT PiIT DISASTERS Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain 1700 to the Present Day (11 January, £3-25). Here is the gruesome but facl-facked story of the greatest coalmining disasters, a book in everlv way as gripping as L T C Rolt’s famous Red ...

... PIT RESCUE Though we are all more or less aware of the hazards of the miner life, an occurrence such as the tense drama at Knockshlnnoch Castle pit suddenly gives sharp edge to that awareness. The least imaginative person must moved by a tragic happening ...

... Mystery disaster RETI RED teacher Miss Nora Hollins is looking for clues in her quest to identify the body of her grandfather, a victim of one of North Staffordshire's worst pit disasters. Seventy-seven miners died when a vast underground reservoir of ...

... DISASTER UUCKSACK (“Post,'' June at the time when Ballawrwy w«s • . being built. —BELL HALLIWELL. 19th) mentions the great well field-road. Pretton. ferry boat disaster In 1«35. BOLIVIAN CAPITAL when 47 persons were drowned NOTICE that in your Quoin ...

... Rescue bid fails as poison gas floods tunnels BLASTS END HOPE AT DISASTER PIT RESCUE squads and officials today lost hope of saving any more of the hundreds of miners still trapped in the gas•filled Wankie colliery. They haven't a hope in hell, a grimfaced ...

... FLOOD DISASTER During their stay in Winnipeg the gateway to Canada’s vast prairie land —the Royal couple will see the area which suffered In last year’s disastrous Red River floods. In a busy 10i-hour programme the Princess and the Duke will attend a ...

... Disaster for Sugarloaf Sugarloaf Rangers hit one of their worst ever days against Red Bank. This is a Sugarloaf weakness -- brilliant at home and hopeless away. Tommy Dowling, Tommy Tinsley and Eamonn Tinsley were the only ones to make any effort. The ...

... RA PIT C, Trew has powertul defence, says Q.C IATY-TWO- YEAR-O! William Trew, driver of the steam train in the Lewisham rail disaster. said at the Old Bailey yesterday that before the crash he had his hand on the brake al! the time. He has pleaded not ...

... before the Creswell pit disaster, many men would have been able to reach safety. The life saver, which is carried in a tin container with a metal loop to enable it to be attached to the miner’s belt, weighs only IJlb. with the container. It was demonstrated ...

... community and the coal owners, and it exists today; a pleasant red-brick building just a mile from the disaster scene, known colloquially as the welfare hospital. SECRETS of the DEATH PIT F b O y R E SR T I E C R • t Part five • was wrong ~.. ..,,,, ...

... PIT FUND REACHES £62,500 (CINEMAS. hotels and. public tributors to the relief.-fund. latest con- Ww “the end of .« periect for |_ The car driven by Mr men killed ton. is understood to have been collections in car were. Twizel the and the! of -Pourth Row: ...