THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938.
FULL STORY OF TRAGIC MARKHAM
COLLIERY DISASTER
Explosion Traps Night Shift Of 160 Workers
DEATH ROLL OF
SEVENTY-NINE
Chesterfield, May 11.
EARLY yesterday morning a disastrous explosion occurred at the Markham Col- liery, near Chesterfield. Last evening the death-roll was officially announced as 72, but about midnight the police gave the total as 79; 74 bodies had already been recovered.
Over 70 men have lost their lives as the result of an explosion at the Mark- ham Colliery, of the Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Limited, at Duckmanton, five milea from Chesterfield, shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning.
The following telegram, addressed to the High Sheriff of Derbyshire, was re- ceived from the King at the colliery last night:~
"The Queen and I are shocked to hear of the terrible explosion at Markham No. 1 Colliery and of the heavy loss of life involved. Please convey our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved relatives and to those who are still in anxiety. We should also like to be informed how the injured are progressing.—George R. 1.”
Bullock this morning.
About 5 o'clock in the afternoon the most intelligible account of the po hospital were able to leave after the first offelal statement was made disaster so far üħtainable
Trentment One of these, Albert 13 Mr D. M. Turner, managing This n Desmond Colledge, Smith, of Springbank Roud, Chester- director of the Staveley Conf and Iron | aged 28, of Station Rond, Bolsover | feld, "could" say no more
than that Company, Limited, as follows:
He had been at work during the he was walking away to the pit bottom when he became aware of An explosion occurred at Marind unished work and returns to gas, but he had heard no explosion
night in another part of the cutlery No 1 Blk Shule Colllery at the end of the right shift shortly before the surface by another shaft. and He must have had a stronger dose was about to go home when he saw of gas than he was aware of. For cloud of dust and remake coming | he remembers no more after being The cause of the explosion is at from the shaft of No. 1 PIL. He brought till the recoveredi Co- present unknown, and investigahoushurried there and reached the pit
sciousness in hospital me si beint male Mr Cook hithead just in time to see staggering
FOUR OF ONE FAMILY Majesty's Division! Inspector of out a thun whom he believes to have Mines, and his staff have been down been the first actually injured in the
Among the men detained in the This the pit, also Mr H Hicken, secretary explosion to conse out alive.
Chesterfield Hosptial is Thomas of the Derbyshire Miners' Associa
man escaped fatul guessing because tion. Mi Wynne, Chief Inspector of, he had, or found a sponge, which he Grainger, aged 33, of Clowne, one of four members of the same family Mines, is expected at the collery this filled with water and pressd over semployed on the night shift. Mrs afternoon from London
nase and mouth. Colledge says the was the only injured one to walk out
He helped to get him to 4. said that her husband and Forty- the first and station about 200 yards their son, as well as Thomas Grain- furve Teen taken to hospital, the
ger and her brother-in-law Ambrose. majority of which we hope will
were all down the mine last night. not be serious. Twenty-seven dead
Thomas Grainger, who has escaped bodies have been recovered to p.m.)
with his life, was also in the ex- and there are still 43 person un-
pision at the same pit in January accounetd for. Rescue operations are
of last year. still proceeding.
There were approximately 160 In the pit at the time
14 DEAD IDENTIFIED
At 8.20 p.m. the following further omeint statement
WAK
man
away.
Grainger, the wife of John Grainger
The call for volunteers as rescue workers was raised, and many of those who had got out uninjured responded and joined other parties that were assembling from ali parts
Rescue brigades were early on the of the coalfield. Some oxygen ap scene from neighbouring colliertes at paratus was available, but at Art Chesterfield, Mansfield, and Ilkeston,
He no respirators, so Colledge suid.
Mad the North Nolts Coal Owners Issued, dis- and a mute went down with a canary
Association's rescue van and crew closing the full extent of the dis-in a cage and some oxygen boities, with apparatus were also engaged in
resuscitate the work. and they were able to
There was no lack of some of the men whom they found
helpers-officials, surface work- The whole of the pit has now been lying about. Others were obviously ers, doctors, firemen, and ambulance examined, and all the men eccounted beyond help More
were rescuers
in the after- for. There is no one left alive, and by now below ground, and as they cadea, with vans
Inoon the Bishop of Derby (Dr. the total death roll is now 72. The felt fresh air they spilt up into twlinson), who had been conduct- remaining bodies will be get out as parties to expedite the search. Pre-ing a memorial service for the Duke i soon as possible.
aster*...
Up to date the follwing 14 kove been identified: --
George Davison. Courell Barlborough.
Offer
W. Sherwin, Duckmanton
Road,
Duckmanton.
J. Geary, Lime Avenue, Staveley
C. Hill, Barker Lane, Brampton.
Mary Astor,
screen actress, celebrated her 32nd birthday recently with a few close friends. at a party dan Hollywood hotel. Above, her husband, Manuel del Campo, eagerly awaits the first
live
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sently Colledge and his mate nolled of Devonshire in Derby Cathedral, Centre For
that their canary had dropped dead, farrived at the colllery and offered and they dkJ arot venture further
Tuner, | prayer for the bereaved, Owing to the goa they felt them- The following message from the selves staggering like drunken men.Prime Minister has been posted In and they had to drop on their hands the colliery yard:
D. Ban, Shuttlewood Road, Bol-nearly
sover.
S. Lodge, Low Cominon, Renishawy,
R. Simms, The Square, Poolsbrook.
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C. Gee, Barber's Row, Renishow.
R.
E.
Street. Granger, Crown Clowne (son).
address
same
A. Furniss,
Staveley.
John Granger, (father).
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7,0 For The Children.
Sargent.
F. Smhl, New Bungalows, Barl-timber instead of on his ordinary sympathy to the President of the Intricacies of rearhug a brand new (Arr. Lawrence Brown).
and knees and crawl a large port I am very grieved to hear of the of the way back to the pit bottom. serious explosion at No. Markhan T. G. Yates, Poolsbrook Coltages, |They then collapsed and were taken Colliery. Please Duckmonton.
to hospital.
families and friends of those who you Putlence, the only "baby" in New Symphony No. 101 [31 D Minor The men on the shift who were have lost their lives my sincere York who can claim the parental at-The Clock") (Haydn); Menuetio overt aken by the explosion were
syinpathy In their bereavement. tention of more than 120 expectant Allegretto Philharmonic-Sym- all in the return nirvoy,
fathers!
phony Orchesten Of New York con- which received the full blast of gas
"COLLIERY NOW SAFE" For Patience is the life-sized doll ducted by Arture Toscanini; From
whose patience apparently Is and smoke, and this accounts for the
in- The Studio Serial Story "Seeing casualties. heavy
Very few of them An official of the colliery company Exhaustible
The Empire." Children's Overture York's Ma- were able to reach the main travel-aid to a Press representative after teruity Centre despite some fairly H. Wale, Worksop Road, Duckman-ling road, which they are not norm-inspecting the pit late last night: rough handling by well-meaning but
New Light Symphony (Quilter) Orchestra unl, by Dr. Mulcolm ally allowed to use on their way to The colliery is now safe and the sometimes bitndering fathers-to-be. and from the shaft.
is working Those who did ventilation
normally.
7.30 Vocal Ducts by Paul Robeson It's all part of the Centre's newest so found it cicorer.
There is no reason why work should lecture and demonstration
and Lawrence Brown. courses, Arther Hodgkinson, of Whittington not be resumed to-morrow in those classes in baby care established Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
by Moor, near Chesterfeld,
sections of the pit not affected by the director, Miss Hazel Corbin, and ripper.
(Arr. L. Brown); De Qle Ark's A stunted from the male point of view. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel (Arr.
(Arr. Movering
Ball Johnson): Street, was another whose story I obtained. the explosion. Davendish
He had been engaged last night with of Public Works, sent a message of
M. Frossard, the French Minister Believing that husbanda ay
well ብሩ wives should be instructed in the Brown). Hammer Song: L'11 David borough.
work, and had finished and was
Board of Trade on hearing of the offspring, Miss Corbin took the His Hawallan Serenaders
7.40 Studio-Raymond Lui And The following additional list of making his way to the pit boltom, & Markham disaster. dead was issued early 10-day:-
distance of about a mile, when the
horns, so to speak, when she nounced her
1. May Day Is Lei Day In Hawaii; her new courses for ex-2. Kamehameha Waltz: 3. Alekoki pectant fathers who cared to attend.4 To You Sweetheart Alohn: 5, No one was more surprised than Hawaiian March: 0, I Played A Tune site when the response was so great On My Sweet Okolehno. that not one, but two clusses had to be established to answer the demand. So now there are dozens of husbands spending an evening or so a week at Miss Corbin's centre giving Patience, the workout of her life.
Patience takes it all very calmly an
A. Garland, Foljambe Road, Brim-explosion occurred. The blast blew ington.
A. Bell, Victoria Road, Staveley. R. B. Whitehead, North Crescent,
Duckmonton.
G. H. Jackson, Mansfield Rond,
Carter, North Crescent,
Clowne.
Arthur Duckmanton,
T. Jones, South Crescent, Duck-
manton.
manton.
Duckmanton.
his tin helmet off and his shovel out of his hand, and he was forced against the wall. He did not lose consciousness, however, and noticed that the air ventilation system had
reversed its direction and that the current was facing him, Instead of being at his back. He knew, there- fore, that if he tried to get out by
THIS BOY SEES LIKE THIS-
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Ealek, eleven-year-old
Frank
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8.0 Time. Weather and Announce- menia,
8.03 March Weber & His Orchestra
with Walter Glynue (Tenor),
Menuett No. I (Poderewski); Coeur Brise (Gillet) the ordinary way he would get into Chiengo schoolboy, tried in vain to
Orchestra. Walter Glynne Medley
Walter W. Watson, South Crescent, Duck black damp and would probably be learn to read or write. Suddenly the the fathers-to-be swing her around
Love's Dream After Glynne.
The killed. He decided to try to get out reason for his fallure was discovered and about, learning approved diaper Ball (Czibulko): Indra Waltz (From W. Lievesley, North Crescent, by the main
the main travelling road, and by--he sees everything upside down.
formations, bathing technique Duckmanton.
way safely to the
proper holding positions. It's better, the Operette "In the Realm of Indra' -Lincke) Orchestra. My Lips H. Hargreaves, North Crescent, bottom of the shaft turning back to
Doctors and scientists who have Miss Corbin points out, that the men Are Made For Kissing ("Giuditta”--- [recover his forgotten cont. In mak-examined him have found that his take some of the rough edges of their Lebar); Stay With Me For Ever This colliery is the same one where ing this delour he noticed nine dead visual faculties are the reverse of a practice rounds out on Patience than Giuditta Leher)... Orchestra. an explosion occurred on January 21staggering along with a muffler over
bodies. He also encountered a man normal person's.
on their own youngsters. Patience Winter Glynne Medley Walter with the loss of nine lives. It his head, who said to him, pointing
doesn't mind and after " while the Glynne. "A Waltz Dream"Pot- So his tenchers started to teach students" get adept enough employs between 500 and 000 men
be pourri (Straus, arr. Dostal) in three shifts. The night shift of to the dead men: They are all him to read and write the wrong way trusted with their own children. about 100 men was below ground, oneth." He then found that the man round. Already Frank, a normally The lecture course includes talks and the man were about to return a friend of his named George bright pupil. can write quite well on how nature guards new
life. to the surface when the explosion half-carried him to the bottom of characters upside down and starting for the anticipated "blessed event" Davidson, and he heir-dragged and with his left hand, describing the what preparations should be made occurred this morning at the face of the shaft.
from the left.
and why Dad as well an Mollier
arrival.
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to
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PIT 700 YARDS DEEP
This pit in 700 yards deep, and is
to turn the paper round.
To read his writing you only have should be able to care for the new
to this shift, who had been working one of the deepest in the North Notts
In the explosion.
The men detained at Chesterfeld the actual getting of coatory to
Canadian Gold Mines Busy
8.50 Reginald Foori at the Organ. Second Serenade (Heykens); In A Monastery Garden (Ketelbey); Clols- ter Shadows (Hope); The Lost Chord (Sullivan).
0.02 Stan Holloway, Greta Keller And The Ms Brothers.
Shoe Shine Boy (Chaplin, Cahn); Rhythm Saved The World (Cath, Vancouver, B. C.
Chaplin) Approximately 42,000 tons
of Have You Forgottes Brothers
the yellow netal every commercial gold ore are treated for You Mean Itten So Soon?; Dld 24 hours Fred Hartley and His Quintet; The throughout Canada In” 120
'Ole In The (Marriott Edgar)
Holloway
(Humorous
Greta Keller with
nearer the shaft, got clear away and Derbyshire conifield. The con you let him turn the book upside fle can rend, too, now--as long as uninjured, but the rest were involved is cut by compressed air cutiers. In down first. Doctors say that any the scam where the explosion oc- Jattempt to correct this method might FIRST MAN TO ESCAPE
curred the night shift had been upset hits inental balance. engaged on the work
and part Hospital are all suffering severely of their job was to bring the cutting FIREMEN SPREAD FIRE from burns and concussion, and their apparatus nearer to the coal face. I condition In most cases provented cannot hear of any any questioning, Few of them have been in progress just before the cxremen who were called out to ex-
photoring having
In a complete reversal of form, milling plants, necording to Ion. any distinct recollection of what plosion and, although
A Crerar, Dominion Minister
My Headache; Miss. happened, but there was one patient certain that the explosion was at tinguish fire in a vacant lot, cn- Mines and Resources. In 1937 the Olla Regreta (From Walker-Nesbitt's who was not in the explosion at all the face, there is no knowledge ofcouraged it to burn off debris clutores yielded almost 4,065,000 ounces Diddle Diddio') The Mills but was gossed while engaged on the cause at present,
tering up other vacant lots in the of gold, with a value of $141,877,-Brothers; Jonah And The Grampus rescue work. It is the who linn given A few of the men who were taken 'neighbourhood.
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