TRAGEDY IN A MINE.
NINE LIVES LOST. ELEVEN OTHERS TRAPPED. A PREMATURE EXPLOSION. (By Cable.—Tress Association.—Copyright.) SYDNKY, this day. After blasting operations at lloskins' i Mine, Cadia, in t.ie Orange district, a - mass of ironstone collapsed, burying 20 - men. following the usual custom, the men working oil thp ore fired several 1 shots in the open face of the rock on <' the surface belore the dinner interval. i J The fall occurred soon after work had - been resumed, tlu- men, without warn- - ing, being buried under a mass of iron- > stiine. Harroiving scenes followed, . families crowding around the mine to watch the rescue work, which is prof J feeding with feverish haste. i i So far six bodies have been recovered. 1 Tho police nport states tiiat the disaster k \va« due to a premature explosion.— (A. ljand N.Z. Cable.) (I _...._. l> NAMES OF THE KILLED. i . lUecelved VJ.HO yvm.i i SVDNKV. this day. The men killed in the Cadia mine * nunilier nine. Their names are: Stanley Jenkins. I'atrick McKeown, Alfred ' Campbell, Harry Hums, Charles Moore, . Phillip Bright. .lolln Miles, Gitugv • Christie and Kichnrd Jnhnaon. The majority lived in Orange,— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)'
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 60, 11 March 1921, Page 5
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