Miners dead in Swansea Valley tragedy
 

Divers who entered a flooded mine to help free four miners trapped 90m (295ft) underground have been forced to return above ground, say rescuers and lets hope and pray that they can all be rescued alive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14942458

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/se...sh-mine-rescue

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Rumours doing the rounds down here is that they've recovered a body.

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It is saying on bbc news 24 they have found one dead man.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14944188

Horrific way to die. My thoughts are with the remaining trapped miners and all their families.

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Yes its very sad to hear this news and we just have to hope and pray that we can bring the other miners out alive.

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Another miner's body found :(

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Yes its very sad news and l fear the worse for the other two miners as well.

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l am afraid a third miner has been found dead now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14949286

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Yeah they have :-( its just up the road from where im living. There will be a big funeral for them and a lot of support to families from Public.

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Can someone rename the thread please as thread title does not represent the ongoing Tragedy now.

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Miners are in my eye's brave men doing a job i could never do. My heart goes out to the families of these men and the loss they must be feeling for those confirmed dead. I hope we have some good news soon

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Well said.

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It is definately a difficult job and I admire those that do it.
Rest in peace.

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l am afraid that the grim news of a forth miner now found dead has been confirmed by the police.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14955526

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Indeed a sad day, may they all RIP

May i also say thank you to those brave men who tried to save them and put there own lives at risk.

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RIP to the miners my heart goes out to their families and a thank you to the emergency services for their valiant efforts

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I proberly like many others thought when this story first broke thought about how the 'Chiliean Miners' were rescued and these guys would be home soon.

But that wasn't to be :(

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sadly no .I do hope people (meaning the media mostly)don't start comparing this rescue attemt to the success of the Chilean rescue and suggest that our resue team wasn't upto the job as they where totally different circumstances and a totally different type of mine so there realy is no comparison

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RIP

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It's been a very long time since we have had miners die in a mine collapse.I had hoped never to hear of it happening again.

RIP.

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A Welshman stood at the pearly gates, his head was bent and low. He meekly asked the man of fate the way that he should go. "what have you done" St Peter said "to gain admission here" "I merely mined for coal" he said "for many, many a year" St Peter opened wide the gate and softly tolled the bell "come in and choose your harp" he said.... "you've had your share of hell".

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:clap::clap::clap:


who wrote that?

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That is excellent :tu:

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Can't find a credited author but it seemed to be the most appropriate thing to say.

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When i think of this the song which David Alexander sang about Minors and Wales called "If I could see the Rhondda One more time" always comes to mind.

Lyrics are...

The mist on the mountains ,
the rivers running free ,
the big men walking home from the mines,
the coal dust clinging to them as they slowly climb the hills ,
if I could see the Rhonnda one more time .

If I could see the Rhonnda once again
and walk where I used to run as a child ,
the dust from that coal made it's mark upon my soul,
I'd love to see the Rhonnda one more time .

500 voices singing in the Chapel on the hill ,
the day that my old grandpa passed away ,
but I didn't cry on the day that he died
cause I know where my old grandpa went that day .

He's walking down the tireless town ,
in the Rhonnda of his dreams ,
he's standing on a hill above the mines ,
the choirs fill the air as he's proudly standing there ,
he's singing in the Rhonnda one more time .

He's singing in the Rhonnda once again ,
he walks where he used to run as a child ,
the dust from that coal left it's mark upon his soul ,
he's gone to see the Rhonnda one more time.

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And as expected, a Facebook page has been set up by some brain donor extracting the urine out of the 4 men because they were Welsh. Anyone here on my FB can report it, the link is on my status.

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Given the fact that some twonk has been jailed for a similar offence, I would hope that it is reported, and that Facebook cooperate with the police.

A sad time for a declining noble profession, I hope all the families get some piece.

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RIP

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Done. What a pathetic excuse of a person. I have put it on my main FB account to get more complaints lodged. Maybe a few more members could link to it and get it pulled faster as well before it has a chance to upset anyone linked to the disaster.

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It would be best to not link to it as there's some pretty awful language being used on it.

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Agreed, it certainly isn't something I would want to give a link to on here.

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The page has now been removed.

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Good - I reported it as soon as I saw you post it, selected "Racial discrimination" or something worded like that as the reason for reporting it.

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http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Mi...ail/story.html

The police are investigating.

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I am glad of that as there is no excuse for such despicable behavior by a idiotic sick minority.

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I cant understand racism between English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish etc.

I know some of the history but in this day and age surely it should be water under the bridge but it still goes on i have been at the end of it myself in England.

On one of my many visits to Plymouth i was verbally attacked for being Welsh and they made quite a few racist remarks.

Also on a visit to a pub in London around the Leicster Square area i went in to use the Loo and thankfully didnt speak, i went into the mens toilet and written all over the walls were things like "Kill the Welsh" and drawings along the same line.

Unfortunately its just a few that spoils it for all and unfortunately some people then think everyone is like that.

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There have been a lot of collections for this in Swansea today, Tesco in Swansea Marina are collecting and so are people in the Quadrant Shopping Center.

I knew there would be a lot of support and its still good to see that there are still people out there willing to help, i was suprised at this time to see so many notes in the collection boxes of £5, £10 and £20s.

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Current total raised for the families of those affected is close to £900,000 - amazing effort in such a short space of time.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Or...ail/story.html

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Indeed :tu:

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Wonderful and just shows how kind and generous some people are.