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Show HUNDREDS PERISH IN EXPLOSION Colliery in Wales Scene of Calmity in Which Four Hundred Perish. Cardiff, Wales. A disaster, possibly the greatest in the history of the South Wales coal fields, whose annals are bristling with terrible catastrophes, occurred Tuesday through an explosion explo-sion in the Universal colliery near here. Shortly after the day shift of 931 men entered the mine an explosion shattered the works. Wednesday about 500 miners were brought to the After midnight the rescuing parties began to get the fire under control and at 2:30 Thursday morning twenty twen-ty more men were found alive at the bottom of the pit. This gave hope that others may be found, but there is still a probability that nearly 400 men perished. |