- Title: USA: TOTAL OF 26 DIE IN TWO SEPARATE EXPLOSIONS IN KENTUCKY MINE.
- Date: 13th March 1976
- Summary: 1. GV rescue teams around disaster area. 0.14 2. GV ZOOM IN TO SV mine entrance 0.21 3. GV ambulances and rescue workers around entrance to mine ( 4 shots ) 0.35 4. CU State Mine Commissioner H.N. Kirkpatrick speaking 0.51 SOF IN: "We have bad news..... SOF OUT.......all eleven dead". 5. CU relatives weeping ( 4 shots ) 1.02 6. GV rescue workers and relatives 1.09 7. SCU Harvey Sturgill (victim's son) speaking 1.25 SOF IN: "At first ..... SOF OUT: ..... techniques." 8. GV AND CU Funeral service for victims of previous explosion ( 6 shots ) 1.41 Mine Commissioner H.N. Kirkpatrick "We have bad news - at twelve-on-seven my rescue team got to the people and all eleven are dead." Harvey Sturgill (victim's son) "At first I'm afraid the federal officials - there's some speculation that perhaps they've not been doing the work they should do here - and there's a possibility that the people who have been operating the mines here have not been using (indistinct) safe techniques." "Today for the second time this week emergency rescue teams rushed to the Scotia Coal Company Black Mountain mine. An investigation team had gone into the same shaft where fifteen miners were killed in an explosion Tuesday night. A second blast last night left eleven of the thirteen men in the investigation team trapped three and half miles from the mine entrance. Two men escaped, but efforts to rescue the trapped men failed today". "Three of the victims were federal inspectors. The others were miners. The son of one of today's victims blamed the methane gas hazard on lack of federal inspection". The deaths from last night's explosion were announced at the same time as the funeral services were beginning for the miners killed Tuesday. Scott Osborne, NBC News, Partridge, Kentucky Initials RH/MF/AH/2000 TELERECORDING This film is serviced with a sound commentary by NBC reporter Scott Osborne. A transcript appears overleaf. There are also two short sections of Speech-on-Film, transcripts appear below. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: PARTRIDGE, KENTUCKY, USA
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- Country: USA
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