Jewels - Minerals - Mining - Rocks
Sep. 26, 1950 - Eighty Men Lost In Colliery Disaster. Relatives Await News At The Pithead: An official statement says that it is impossible to rescue eighty of the men trapped by a wall of flame at Creswell Colliery, Dorbyshire. The fire is believed to have started 1, 600 feet underground at a point 1, 000 yards from the shaft bottom. Photo shows Relatives anxiously awaiting news at the pithead
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13160759
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46126913
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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