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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

MARKHAM

STORY OF TRAGIC COLLIERY DISASTER

Explosion Trap's Night

Night Shift Of 160 Workers

DEATH ROLL

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 bodica 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 miles 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:-

our

"The Queen and I are shocked to hear of the terrible explosion at Markham heartfelt No. 1 Colliery and of the heavy loss of life involved. Please convey 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. I."

Albert

About 5 o'clock in the afternoon the must intelligible account of the to hospital were able to leave after

trentmeal One of The the first ameial statement was made fitisaster as far attainable,

This man is Desmond Colledge, Smith, of Springbank Road, Chester- by Mr. 17. M. Turner, managing director of the Staveley Coal and Tron aged 28, of Station Road, Bolsoverfekt, could any no more than that walking 4way to the t He had been at work during the he was Company, Limited, as follows:

high in unother part of the collimy, bottom when he became aware of

No.

An explosion occurred at Markham Black Shale Colllery at the end of the night shift shortly before 6 o'clock this morningt

han fleshed work and returned

Contri

De

Rus,

he remembers no more after beg brought up till he recovered con seiousness in trespital.

1

screen actress, Mary Astor, celebrated ber 32nd birthday recently with a few close friends, at a party in a Hollywood hotel, Alve, her husband, Manuel del , emerly awaits the first

Move To Get Clarence Hatry Freed

A number of isiluential people, beleving that his sentence was Loo severe, are making efforis to secure the early release from prison of Clarence Hatry, the financier, who was sentenced to 14 years' penal servllude for the activities which led to the "Entry crash."

This was malert to the Press by his son, Cecil A. Hatry.

"For ten months." he said, "my Taller hus temps Ta The

but he fad heard no explosion. the surface by another shaft, and he must have had a stronger dose was about to go home when he saw of kin ihan he was aware of, for in bound of dust and speaker

1 THE The cause of the explosion is at from the shift of No. present unknown, and investigations burned there and renched the pit are still being made. Mr. Cock, his head just in time to see staggering

FOUR OF ONE FAMILY Majesty's Divisjonel Inspector of but a tuus whom he believes to have

Among the men detained! in the Mines, and his staff havs lern town been the first actually injured in thei

This Chesterfield Hosptial Thomas the pit; also Mr. i. Hicken, secretary explosion to come init alive. of the Derbyshire Miners' Assori-min csemped fatal gassing beenuse Grainger, aged 39, of Clowne, one tion. Mr. Wynne, Chief Inspector ist he had, or found a sponge, which he

the employed on the nicht shift, Mrs. | hospital. Mines, is expected at the colllery Das filled with water and pressd over his four members of the same family

Colledge lys the tise and mouth,

to Granger, the wife of John Grainger, afternoon from London

man was the only injured one There were approximately 100 to walk out. He helped to get him to aged 49. said that her husband and truen a term of blant pressure the plt at the time.

Forty-one cases the first and station about 200 yards their son, as well as Thomas Graiu have been taken to hospital, the tuway.

We hope will majority of which not be serious. Twenty-seven dead bodies have been recovered (5 p.m.) and there are t 45 persons -

accounetd for. Rescue operations are still proceeding

14 DEAD IDENTIFIED

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 all parts

ter and her brother-in-law Ambrose, were all down the mine last night. Thomas Grainger, who has escaped with his life, was also in the ex- the same plt in January pision at of last year.

Itescue brigades were early on the of the roafteld. Some oxygen scene from neighbouring collleries at paratus was available, but at first Chesterfield. Mansleid, and Ilkeston, He and the North Notts Coni Owners no respiraters, so Colledge unid. dis-and a mate went down with a canury Association's rescue van and crew dis-in a cage and some oxygen boilies, with apparatus were also engaged In

and they were able to resuscitate the work. some of the men whom they found other helpers--officials, surface work-

▪སྙ- Others were obviously lying about.

uslyers, doctors, firemen, and ambulance More

In the after- rescuers were brigades, with vans. beyond help. by now below ground, and as they noon the Bishop of Derby felt fresh air they split up into Rawlinson), who had been conduct- Inx memorial service for the Duke parties to expedite the search. Pre sently Colledge and his mate noticed of Devonshire in Derby Cathedral. that their canary had dropped dead,

At 6.20 p.m. the following further

was issued, official statement closing the full extent of the

nster:-

The whole of the pit has now been examined, and all the men areounted for. There is no one left alive, and the total death roll is now 72. The remaining bodies will be gut out as Foon as possibic.

been identifed:---

There was

prayer for the bereaved.

Jack

of

(Dr

Up to date the lololwing 14 have and they did not venture further farrived at the colliery and offered Owing to the gas they felt them- The following message from the cffler selves muggering like dranken men, Prime Minister has been posted in

and they had to drop on their hands the colliery yard: Rond

a large part and knees and crawl

I am

George Davison. Council

Barlborough.

W. Sherwin, Duckmanbor

Duckmanton.

T. G. Yatca, Poolsbrook Cottages, Duckmanton.

J. Geary, Lime Avenue, Staveley. C. Hill, Barker Lone, Brampton.

of the way back to the pit bottoin. ser very mieved to hear of the

They then collapsed and were taken Colliery. to hospital.

D. Ban, Shuttlewood Road, Bol-nearly all in the NOVET.

S. Lodge, Low Commen, Renishaw,

R. Simms, The Square, Poolsbrook,

100.

C. Gee, Barber's Row, Renishow.

R. E Granger,

Clowne (son).

John Gronger,

(father).

Staveley.

Furnis

same

Davendish

NO

"COLLIERY NOW SAFE"

JUNE 6, 1938,

RADIO BROADCAST

Raymond Lui in Hawaii Recital from Studio

HOTEL ORCHESTRA

Radlo Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.c.'s, and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. 9.52 m.c.'s per and 8-11 p.m. on second.

0.0 Relay, of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel,

(n) At the close of a long long day: (b) Naughty Waltz; (e) Adieu, to love, Adieu; (d) A Song in your Heart.

0.14. Recorded: Ebony Shadows- Fox-Trot; Big Boy Blue-Fox-Trol Teddy Foster and His Kings Of Swing.

0.21 () More power to you; (b) Minor Swing; (e) May I have the next romance with you; (d) Old King Cole.

What A 0.35 Recorded; My.

Night-Fox-Trot (From Dift Rent 'Everybody Dance'); bedy Dance-Fox-Trot Film)

Louls Lery Gaumont British Symphony: Doing The VoomVoom-Fox-Trot Duke Ellington & His Orchestra.

Every- (From the Flis und

6.44 (n) Hawaiian Hospitality; (b) Mama, That moon is here again; (c) The sun will shine; (d) Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen.

7.0 For The Children.

Nu. 101 Ju 13 Minor ") (Haydn): Menuello- ("The Allegretio

Philharmonic-Syn- phony Orchestra Of New York con- ducted by Arture Toscanini; Frui The Studio- Serial Story "Secing The Empire" Children's Oven te (Quilter) New Light Symphony Orchestra rond, by Dr Muleolin Sergent.

7.30 Vocal Ducts by Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown.

Jorbase Fit De Battle 4th Jerjeḥn (Ar L Brown): De Ole Ark's A Movering (Arr. Ezekiel Saw De

I.

Johnson). Hall Wheel (Arr Brown? Hammer Song: 1.11 David (Art. Lawrence Brown),

7.40 Studio-Raymond

His Hawallan Serenadets.

"

L

Lal And

1. May Day la Del Day In Hawaii, Waltz, 3, Alekoki, Kamehamelin

4. To You Sweetheart Aisha; 3, Hawaiian March; 6, 1 Played A Tune On My Sweet Okolehno

8.0 Time. Weather and Announce- prisonments.

voy suck man, suffering

"Normally his sentence would not expire anii 1910, but I am hoping that the move to secure a remission of his sentence will be successful.

8.03 Marck Weber & 15s Orchestra with Walter Glynne (Tenori.

Menuett Nu..

(Puderowska).

Orchestra

Walter

The

Coeur Brice (Gillet Walter Glyont Medley Glynne. Love's Dream After Ball (Czibulku): Indra Waltz (From the Operette "In the Realm of Indra

Orchestru. Time after the people who have Lincke)

My Lips Roae bankrupt anve blames their Are Made For Kissing (Giuditta

For Ever Lehar); Stay With Me failure on the Entry crush.

Orchestra. "The true facts are that when the ("Giuditia"--Lebar).

Walter 1ntry group fated and the loss was Walter Glynne Medley

"A around £19,000,000 the loss to the Glynne. investing pubbe was just over pourri

£500,000."

Maternity Centre For Fathers

that

Waltz

tr.

Dream"--Pot-

Dostal)

(Straus, Orchestra.

8.35 London Relay-Empire Ex- change."

Points of view by travelters from the Dominions and Colonies.

4.50 Reginald Foort at the Organ. Second Serenade (Heykena); In A Monastery Garden (Ketelbey); Clois- ter Shadows (Hepe); The Lost Chord (Sullivan),

9.03 Stan Holloway, Greta Keller And The Mills Brothers,

9.50

The

To-

Day at the Raceo'),

10 London Relay-In Town To- Night.'

Shoe Shine Boy (Chaplin, Cahn); Rhythm Saved The World (Cahn, Chaplin)

Brothers; Mults New York. explosion at No. 1 Markhain

Have You Forgotten So Soon?; Did Ladeez und gentiaen, we give You Mean It? Greta Keller with Please

the convey

you Patience, the only "baby" in New Fred Hartley and His Quintet; The familles and friends of those who The men on the shift who were huve lost their lives my sincere York who can claim the parental at- Ole In The Ark (Marriott Edgar) tention of more than 120 expectant Stanley Holloway (Humorous overtaken by the explosion were sympathy in their bereavement.

fathers!

Miss return airway,

Monologue); My Headache; For Patience is the life-sized doll Otis Regrets (From Walker-Nesbitt's which received the full blast of gas

whose patience apparently 15 In-Hi Diddle Diddle')

The Mill: An official of the colliery company exhaustible ust New York's Ma-Brothers; Jonah And The Grampus and smoke, and this necounts for the heavy casualties. Very few of them were able to reach the main travel-sald to a Press representative after ternity Centre despite some fairly (Marriott Edgar). Stanley Hollo- H. Wale, Worksop Road, Duckman-ling road, which they are not norm-inspecting the pit late last night: rough handling by well-meaning but way (Humorous Monologue).

The colllery is now safe and the sometimes blundering fathers-to-be. 0.30 ally allowed to use on their way to

London Relay The News. ន working normally. It's all part of the Centre's newest

Peter, Dawson and from the shaft.

Songs by Those who did ventilation Crown Street,

There is no reason why work should lecture and demonstration courses, (Dass-Baritone). so found it clearer.

not be resumed to-morrow in those classes in baby care establlabed by

The Builder (Foley Cadman); Arther Hodgkinson, of Whittington sections of the pit not affected by the director, Miss Hazel Corbin, and Fret-Foot (Barran--McCall }; address

Moor, near Chesterfield, a

ripper, the explosion. Street, was another whose story I obtained.

M. Frossard, the French Ministe slanted from the male point of view. Morrow Is Another Day (From 'A

as well husbands as Belleving had been engaged last night with

as wives should be instructed in the sympathy to the President of the intricacies of rearing a

brand new F. Smith, New Bungalows, Barl-timber instead of on his ordinary of Public Works, sent a message of

was work, and had finished and

bin took the bull

10.30 Dance Music, by the horns, so to speak, when she

Fox-Trots When My Dream Boat Markham disaster.

announced her new courses for ex- Comes Home; I Stumbled Over Love

to attend.

Roy Fox And His Orchestra: pectant fathers who cared

Schwarzer Tangos-Du

Zigeuner; No one was more surprised than she when the response was so great

Veni Pebeta...

Dajos Bela and His that not one, but two classes had to

Dance Orchestra,

Fox-Trots Lovely be established to answer the demand.

To Look At (From So now there are dozens of husbands

Won't Dance (From spending an evening or so a week at

Ambrose and His Orchestru of the Miss Corbin's centre givi

giving Patience

Club, Embassy

London with vocal the workout of her life.

chorus:

Slow Fox-Trots-Every Patience takes it all very calmly as Minute Of The Hour; Here Comes the fathers-to-be swing her around The

Danca The BBC, The Bride Orchestra directed by Henry Hall formations,

and bathing technique

with vocal chorus: Waltz-I'm sull It's better, In Love With You; Fox-Trot--I'm proper holding positions. Miss Corbin points out, that the men

Just Beginning To Care... Henry take some of the rough edges of their Jacques (Bellain's Champion Dancer of 1034-36) With His Correet Dance practice rounds out on Patience than

Putience Tempo Orch. on their own youngsters.

while doesn't mind and after a

11 Close Down,

borough.

The following additional list of making his way to the plt bottom. Board of Trade on henring of the offsprng, Miss Corbin

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dend was issued early to-day:-

A Garland, Foljambe Rond, Brim-explosion occurred. ington.

A. Bell, Victoria Road, Staveley. R. B. Whitehend, North Crescent, Duckmanton.

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clistance of about a mile, when the The blast blew his tin helmet off and his shovel out forced of his hand, and he against the wall. He did not lose consciousness, however, and noticed G. H. Jackson, Mansfeld Road, that the air ventilation system had reversed its direction and that the Clowne.

Carter, North Crescent, current was facing him, instead of Arthur

being at his back. He knew, there- Duckranton.

T. Jones. South Crescent, Duck-fore, that if he tried to get out by

manton.

THIS BOY SEES

LIKE THIS–

W. Watson, South Crescent, Duck- black damp and would probably be learn to read or write. Suddenly the and about, learning approved dlaper |

manton.

W. Lievesley. North Crescent, Duckmonton.

H. Hargreaves, North Crescent, Duckmanton.

OOL NMOⱭ FAISAN SALIUM SH ONE Frank Bulek. eleven-year-old the ordinary way he would get into Chicago schoolboy, tried in vain to

killed. He decided to try to get out reason for his fallure was discovered

travelling road, and by he sees everything upside down. by the main. It he made his way safely to the

Doctors and scientists who have bottom of the shaft turning back to recover his forgotten cont. In mak-examined him have found that his ing this detour he noticed nine dead visual faculties are the reverse of a bodies. He also encountered a man normal person's. staggering along with a muffler over

tho

bo

This colliery is the same one where an explosion occurred on January 21, 1037, with the loss of nine lives, this head, who said to him, pointing So his teachers started to teach students" get adept enough to employs between 500 and 600 men 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.

gonera." He then found that the man round. Already Frank, a normally The lecture course includes talles about 180 men was below ground, and the men were about to return was a friend of his named George bright pupil, can wille quite well on how nature guards to the surface when the explosion Davidson, and he half-dragged and with his left hand, describing the what preparations should be made occurred this morning at the face of anif-corried him to the bottom of characters upside down and starting for the anticipated "blessed event" and why Dad as well as Mother the black shale scam, about a mile and half from the bottom of the

To read his writing you only have should be able to care for the new

arrival. shaft No. 1 Pit. Two full chairo,

the shaft.

PIT 700 YARDS DEEP

from the left.

to turn the paper round.

He can read, too, now-as long as

containing about 48 men belonging This pit in 700 yards deep, and is to this shift, who had been working one of the deepest in the North Notts nearer the shaft, got clear away and Derbyshire coalfield. The cont you let him turn the book upside uninjured, but the rest were involved is cut by compressed air cutters. In down Arst. Doctors say that any in the explosion.

the scam where the explosion oe-attempt to correct this malliod might curred the night shift had been upset his mental balance. FIRST MAN TO ESCAPE engaged on the work preparatory lo The men detained at Chesterfield the getling of coal,

actual

and

part Hospital are all suffering severely | of. their fob was to bring cutting from burns and concussion, and their apparatus nearer to the coul face. I condition In most cases prevented cannot hear of any shotficing having

the

FIREMEN SPREAD FIRE

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Canadian Gold Mines Busy

Brazil Stops Cotton Sales To Germany

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, June 5. hus stopped her cotton exports to Germany, made under n system of barter, under which 03,000 tons were annually shipped.

Vancouver, B. C.

42,000 tons of Approximately commercial gold ore are treated for the yellow metal every 24 hours throughout Canada lu 128 gold-prico. any questioning. Few of them have been in progress just before the ex-Bremen who were called out to ex-A

In a complete roversal of form, milling plants, according to Hon. T. Crerur, Dominion Minister of any distinct recollection of what plosion and, although it seems

en- Mines and Resources. In 1937 to happened, but there was one patient certain that the explosion was at tinguish fire in a vacant lot, who was not in the explosion at all the face, there is no knowledge of couraged it to burn off debris clut- ores yielded almost 4,085,000 ounces but was gaured while engaged on the cause at present.

tering up other vacant lots in the of gold, with a value of $141,077,-

000. rescue work. It is he who has given A few of the men who were taken 'nelghbourhood.

It is understood the action. UTOSO out of reports that Germany was re-exporting the cotton at a high gold Observers point out that the Im- mediate problem for Brazil is to find another market it German purchases cense, while it is anticipated stronger efforts will be made to sell to Britain and Japan.-Reuter.

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