SENSATIONAL MINE ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN SUFFOCATED.
Perth, this day. Four men wore sinking a ebaft in fcbe three hundred feet level in the Mount Charlotte mine in Kalgoorlie, when one of them dropped a burning candle into a box containing dynamite. One of them snatched ib out before it reached the detonators, and they all rushed for the ladder, pursued by the fumes of burning dynamite. They reached the top, bub two of the men were bo overcome by the.effects of the fumea thab they died. The others are in a serious condition.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 3
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