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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



December 1, 1913. 



THE GKEATEST BRITISH MINE DISASTER ON RECORD. 



The Living Tomb at Senghenydd Laid Bare. 



This pictorial plan (drawn by Mr. Morrell for the Graphic) of the Universal Colliery at 

 Senghenydd, where 435 miners were entombed by the terrible explosion which occurred on the 

 morning of October 14, shows the tunnelled galleries " with the lid off," so to speak, as if tlie 

 2000 feet of strata above them were removed. The force of the explosion, which blew up the 

 Lancaster shaft, transformed it from a " down-current " to an " up-air " shaft, thus preventing 

 the fire and fumes from penetrating into the York district. To this fact the bulk of the men who 

 were at work in that part owe their lives; but, as it is, the disaster is the greatest in. the annala 

 of British mining, the number of dead being 418. 



