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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, JUNE

OF STORY

TRAGIC MARKHAM

COLLIERY DISASTER

Explosion Trap's Night Shift

Of 160 Workers

DEATH ROLL OF

EARLY

SEVENTY-NINE

Chesterfield, May 11.

Y 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 miles from Chesterfield, shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning.

The following telegram, addressed to the High Sheriff of Derbyshire, was ceived from the King at the colliery last night:

rc-

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

screen

actress,

Mary Astor,

32nd birthday celebrated her resently with a few elone friends, at party in a Hollywood hotel. Above, her husband, Manuel del temp. eagerly awaits the Arst

Her

sympathy to the bereaved relatives and to those who are stil! in anxiety. We should Move To Get

also like to be informed how the injured are progressing.-George R. J.”

Diese Albert About & o'clock in the afternoon, the ment intelligible aegum of the, to hospital were able to leave after

treatirent the first officlof statement was made disaster so for obtainable

manngink This man by Mr. D. M. Turner,

Desmond Colledge. Smith, of Springbank Itond, Chester- thel, could say no more than that director of the Staveley Cool and Iron, aged 28, of Station Road. Bolsover.

to the pit 1fd been work during the he was walking away

411 Company, Limited, as follows:

An explosion occurred at Markham tught in mother part of the colliery, button when he became aware of No. 1 Black Shale Colliery at the hat finished work and returned toge, but he had heard n explosion was aware of, for end of the night shift shortly before! The surfore by another shaft, and fe met have had a stranger dose-

was about to go home when he now of gas thun he 6 o'clock this morning.

In cloud of dust and smoke coming he remembers no more after being

he recovered ron He brought up 1 The cause of the explosion is at from the Almuft of No. 1 PR. present unknown, and investigations hurried there and reached the pli selumness in hospital.

see staggering Mr. Cook, his head just in time to are still being made. Majesty's Divisional Inspector oful man whom he believes to have Mines, and his staff have been down uren the first netually injured in the Tida

*** | the pit; al Mr H. Hicken, secretary, explosion to come out alive.

fatal guesting beenuse In sempert of the Derbyshire Miners' Assorta-

found a sponge, which be tion, Mr. Wynne, Chief Inspector of he had. Mines, is expected at the coffiery this filed with water and preed over his nose and mouth. Colledge says the afternoon from London.

man was the only injured he walk out He helped to get him The Arst all station about 200 yards

way,

There were approximately 100 in Forty-one cases the pli at the time. have been laken to hospital, the mojority of which

we hope will not be serious. Twenty-seven dend bodies have been recovered (5 p.m.) and there are still 45 persons un- accounetd for. Rescue operations are still proceeding.

14 DEAD IDENTIFIED

OF

ار

The call for volunteers on rescue workers was raised, and many of out uninjurest those who had responded and lained other parties that were assembling from all parts

Some oxygen ap of the roalfield.

¡Clarence

Hatry Freed

6, 1938.

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A number of influential people, believing that fils semicuro was too severe, are making efforts to secure the early release from Halry, the brison of Clarener Anneler, who was sentenced to 14 years prnal servitude for thr activities which led to the "latry crash,"

Teddy Beara Plenic Mak A Rose

FOUR OF ONE FAMILY

This was revealed to the Press by Krish Septel. Among the men detained in the Thomus

Is son, Creil A. Hatry. Chesterfeld Hospital is

"Par ten baths." Gradage, aged 33, of Clowne, o

father has been Mrs.

hospital. of four members of the same family

imployed on the night shift. Grainger, the wife of John Grainger, aged 49. said that her husband and their son, as well as Thomas Grain- ner and her brother-in-law Ambrose. were all down the mine last night. ! Thumas Grologer, who has escaped with his life, was also in the ex-

Pision at the same pit in January

of last year.

Rescue brigodes were early on the scene from neighbouring collieries al Chesterfeld, Mansfield, and Ilkeston, and the North Notts Conl Owners' Association's rescue van and crew dis-u a cage and some oxygen bollles, with apparatus were also engaged in

and they were able to resuscitate the work.

paratus won available, but at first At 6.20 p.m. the following further no respirators, so Colledge said. He official statement was issued, dis- and a mate went down with a conury closing the full extent of the

aster:-

examined, and all the men accounted about. Others were ubviouslyers, doctors, freinen, and ambulance

resetiers

There was no Jack sume of the men whom they found other helpers-officials, surface work- The whole of the pit has now been

were brigades, with vans in the after- beyond help. Mure

the Bishop of Derby (Dr for. There is no one left alive, and by now below ground, and as they noon

The felt fresh alr they split up into Rawlinson), who had been conduct- the total death roll is now 72.

Pre-ing a memorial service for the Duke remaining bodies will be got out as parties to expedite the search,

sently Colledge and his mate notice of Devonshire in Derby Cathedral, soon as possible.

that their cannry had dropped dead, arrived the colliery and offered and they did not venture further.

pider | prayer for the bereaved, Owing to the gas they felt them. The following message from the George Davison, Council offer.lves staggering ke drunken men. Prime Minister has been posted t Barlborough.

and they bad to drop on their nuds the rollery yard:

Up to date the folowing 4 kave been identified:-

Duckmanton.

W. Sherwin, Duckmanton Road, and knees and crawl a large part

of the way back to the pit bottom They then collapsed and were taken to hospital.

T. G. Yntes, Poolsbrook Cottages. Duckmanton.

J. Geary, Lime Avenue, Staveley C. Hill, Barker Lane, Brampton. D. Ban, Shuttlewood Road, Bul-nearly all

sover.

S. Lodge, Low Common, Renishaw, B. Simms, The Square, Poolsbrook

The mea on the shift who were overtaken by the explosion were in the return airway, which received the full blast of gas and smoke, and this accounts for the Very few of them heavy ensualties.

am very grieved to hear of the serious explosion at No. 1 Markhain

Please

to the convey Colllery. families and friends of those who have lost their lives my sincere sympathy in their bereavement.

"COLLIERY NOW SAFE"

a very sack man, suffering from a term of blood pressure

"Normally his sentence would not expire uutit 1940, but I am hoplug that the move to secure A remission of his senteuer will be successful.

"Time after time people who have their Kone bankrupt tuve blamed falture on the Hatry crash.

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6.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the long- kong

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At the eluce of a long long duy: (5) Naughty Waltz; (e) Adieu, to love, Adieu; (4) A Song in your Heart.

6.14 Recorded: Ebony Shatowa-

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Teddy Foster and His Kings Of

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by Dr. Malcolm

H. Wale, Workson Road, Duekman- were able to reach the main travel- said to n Press representative after ternity Centre despite some fullyrchesim cond.

ton.

C. Gee, Barber's Row, Renishaw.

R. E. Granger, Crown

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The following additional Hist dead was issued corly to-day:

A, Garland, Foljambe Road, Brim

Ingion.

An official of the colliery company they are not runn-Inspecting the pit late last night: Hng

road, which

The Folliery is now safe and the ally allowed to use on their way to

3። working normally. and from the shaft, Those who did ventilation

There is no reason why work should so found it clearer.

not be resumed to-morrow in those sections of the pit not affected by the explosion,

Arther Hodgkinson, of Whittington Moor, near Chesterfield, a ripper was another whose story I obtained. He had been engaged inrt night with

M. Frossard, the French Minister of Pulls Works, sent a message of

tavelerith, New Bungalows, Bari-timber instead of ons may sympathy to the President of the

work.

and had finished and was Board of Trade on hearing of the borough.

of making his way to the pit bottom, a

distance of about a mile, when the Markham disaster, explosion occurred. The blust blew his tin helmet off and his shovel.out forced he was of his hand, and

He did not lose against the wall. consciousness, however, and noticed that the air ventilation system had reversed its direction and that the current was facing lm, instent of being al hla back. He knew, Diere- T. Jones, South Crescent, Duck-fore, that if he tried to get out by

A. Bell, Victoria Road, Staveley. R. D. Whitehead, North Crescent, Duckmanton.

G. H. Jackson, Mansfield Road, Crescent, Carter, North

Clownc.

Arthur Duckmanton.

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8.03 Marek Weber & His Orchestra with Waller Glynne (Tenor).

Menuelt No. 1 (Paderewski); Coeur Brise (Gillet)... Orchestra. Patience

takes it all very calmly as Walter Glynne Medley... Walter the ordinary way he would get into black damp and would probably be

the fathers-to-be swing her around Glynne. Love's Dream After W. Watson, South Crescent, Duckled. He decided to try to get out

and about, learning approved diaper Ball (Czibulko): Indra Waltz (From

bathing technique formations.

and the Operette "In the Realm of Indra' manton.

he sees everything upside down. Crescent, by the main travelling road, and W. Llevesley, North

.. Orchestra, My Lips proper hokling positions. It's better, Lincke) he made his way ately to the Duckmanton.

bottom of the shaft turning back lo

Miss Corbin points out, that the nien Are Made For Kissing ("Gluditto" H. Hargreaves, North Crescent,

recover his forgotten cont. In make

take some of the rough edges of their Lehar); Stay With Me For Ever Orchestra. Duckmanton.

See these Gas Cookers at Walter This colliery is the same one where Ing this detour he noticed nine dead

practice rounds out on Patience than Gluditta"-Lebar) on their own youngsters. Patience Waller Glynne Medley

DreamPot- our Showrooms and get full an explosion occurred on January 21, bodies. He also encountered a mon a muffler over

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particulars. 1937, with the loss of nine lives. It staggering along with a mu

So his teachers started to teach "students" get adept enough to be pourri (Straus, arr.

Orchestra. employs between 500 and 080 mens head, who said to him,

8,15 in three shifts. The night shift or to the dead men: "They are all him to read and write the wrong way trusted with their own children.

London Relay-'Empire Ex- THE HONG KONG & The lecture course includes talks goners." He then found that the man round. Already Frank, a normally

new lite, change." guards

CENTRAL SHOWROOM: about 160 men was below ground, was a friend of his named George bright pupil, can write quite well on how nature and the men were about to return Davidson, and he half-droitged and with his left hand, describing the what preparations should be made to the surface when the explosion half-carried him to the bottom of characters upside down and starting for the antleipated "blessed event" nccurred this morning at the face of the slinft.

KOWLOON SHOWROOMS: from the left.

the black shale seam, about a milo

and a half from the bottom of the

shaft of No. 1 Plt. Two full choirs,

FIRST MAN TO ESCAPE

pointing

PIT 700 YARDS DEEP

Doctors and scientists who have examined him have found that his visual faculties are the reverse of a normal person's.

and wiry Dad as well as Mother should be able to care for the new To read his writing you only have arrival. to turn the paper round.

He can read, too, now-as long as

Canadian Gold Mines Busy

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Polnis of view by travellers from

the Dominions and Colonies.

B.50 Reginald Foart at the Organ. Second Serenade (Heykens); In A Monastery Garden (Kelelbey); Cleis- fer Shadows (Hope); The Lost Chord (Sullivan).

9.03 Bian Holloway, Greta Keller And The Mills Brothers.

Shoe Shine Boy (Chaplin, Cnhn); Rhythm Saved The World (Cahni, Mills Brollers;

Greta Keller with

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

the seam where the curred the night sexplosion centtempt to correct this method might

had been upsel fila mental balance.

Chaplin). Sa Soon?; Did Vancouver, D. C. engaged on the work preparatory to

42,000 tons of Have You Approximately The men detained at Chesterfold the actual getting of con

COR, und part

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the yellow metal every 24 hours Fred Hartley and His Quintet: The from burn and concussion, and their apparatus neurer to the coal face.

Ole Canada in 128 gold-

In The Ark (Marriott Edgar) throughout condition in most cases prevented cannot hear of any shotfiring having

...Stanley Holloway (Humorous any questioning. Few of them have been in progress just before the ex- In a complete reversut of form, milling plants, according to Hon. T

My Headache; Miss of Monologue); A. Crerar, Dominion Minister any distinct recollection of what plosion

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tingulah are in vacant lot, en-Mines and Resources. In 1937 the Oils Regrets (From Walker-Nesbitt's The Milla happoned, but there was one patient certain that the explosion was at who was not in the explosion at all the face, there is no knowledge of couraged it to burn off debris clut- oren yielded almost 4,050,000 ounces Hi Diddle Diddle

tering up other vacant lots in the of gold, with a value of $141,077,- Brothers; Jonah And The Grampus but was gassed while engaged on the cause at present.

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