QUEENSLAND MINE DISASTER.
ALL BODIES BECOVEBBD.
(By OMt-Vtm A«ooktti»-*Copyrijtol.) (Auitr»U»n and N.2. Osbls AMoeiMJoa.) BRISBANE, September 23. All the bodies, numbering 75, have now been recovered at the Mount Mulligon colliery, though a oumber hare-not yet been identified. Sixty of the victims were married men, and some had large families. Those identified yesterday include Grant, Wholan, Spiers, Henes, Adoock, Thompson, Caeloff, Hall, Parkinson, and Smithson. The Hon. E. Gi Theodore (Premier) announces that he is appointing a Royal Commission to enquire into the cause of the disaster. An examination of the mine iHU be made on Saturday to determine the cause and the location of the explosion. Relief funds have been opened in Melbourne and Hobart.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17259, 24 September 1921, Page 11
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