... £85.443 COLLECTED FOR DISASTER FUND The Six Bells Colliery disaster fund, sponsored by the “ Western Mail ” and “South Wales Echo,” has now reached | a total of £85,443. ...

... PIT INQUIRY DATE FIXED The public inquiry into the explosion at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire, on June 28, in which 45 men died, will open at Newport on September 19, the Ministry of Power announced yesterday. ...

... smashed through a side window of his car, police said. , He ;tu fibfiw and in “:Ib-v comfort.” s:mefl wo, miners on way to Six Bells colliery, near AZefl.l.uery; were unhurt. - il ‘Mr Crother’s car was mbd with bricks and stones :{mcmmmmhedd! the road at about ...

... tired-eyed stretcher-bearers yesterday brought up the last of the 45 men killed in Tuesday’s disaster 1000 feet down in the Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, Monmouthshire. By mid-afternoon, 38 of the bodies had been brought.up. Not all had been identified. The ...

... PRESENCE OF GAS REPORTED Six Bells inquir_v A minute of the Six Bells Colliery Safety Committee, dated June 27—the day before 45 men were killed in an underground explosion at the colliery | —had stated that some workmen were | rather concerned that some ...

... SIX BELLS DEPUTY DENIES MEN NOT SEARCHED Contraband matches query A deputy at Six Bells Colliery denied at the public inquiry at Newport, Monmouthshire, yesterday, that the system of searches for contraband matches and tobacco had broken down before the ...

... come to auction and is described as a seminal example of lowrrys work. It has an ‘esti‘mate of £BOO,OOO-£1,200,000: .Six Bells Colliery in Abertillery forms the subject for this vision of South Wales, the hub of the Welsh coal mining industry. In’the Sixties ...

... fall in Monmouthshire pit FOUR SURVIVORS BADLY BURNED Forty-five miners were killed in an explosion and roof fall in Six Bells Colliery, near Abertillery, Monmouthshire, yesterday. A representative of the National Coal Board announced soon after midnight ...

... downpours at Aberbeeg , Monmouthshire , a laiidslido is feared between tho main road to Six Bcllsand . tho railway line near Six Bells Colliery . Mcnsures are being taken to minimise the danger , and a portion of the roadway has boon closed . At Lower Race , near ...

... to rescue them by helicopter—Reuter. SIX BELLS DISASTER w INQUIRY ENDS Manager defended Mr Vivian Luther, manager of Six Bells Colliery where 45 miners died in the explosion last June, was criticised lyesterday for his handling of the searching arrangements ...

... s award . A resolution was passed approving of the action of the workers at the Llaniilleth . Arael , Griffin , and Six Bells Collieries in coming out en strike as a protest An amendment advising those workmen to resume their duties was defeated by a ...