MINING TRAGEDY.
Efforts Of Heroic Mate Prove
, In Vain.
VICTIM TO BLACK DAMP.
(Received 11.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day.
A miner, Joseph Bedford, was overcome by black damp while sinking a coal shaft near Wallsend, Newcastle. A man named Thomas, working nearby, was attracted by Bedford's ■ young brother's alarm. He went down the shaft despite the deadly fumes but was twice forced to come up owing to their effects. The third time he managed to get a rope round Bedford and hauled him to the surface dead.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 7
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87MINING TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 7
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