The World - News from June 6, 1988

Rescue workers found the bodies of 8 miners in Borken, West Germany, bringing the known death toll to 45 in the country’s worst mining disaster in 26 years. Six miners were still missing, and chances of finding them alive appeared to be dwindling fast. Rescue teams have already combed 80% of the shafts and galleries that caved in and filled with poisonous gases about 300 feet underground. An explosion ripped through the Stolzenbach brown coal, or lignite, pit in Borken, 66 miles north of Frankfurt, on Wednesday. Six miners were rescued unhurt Saturday.