TRAPPED MINER
Slim Hope Of Rescue
(N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) BRISBANE, Nov. 13. Sixty coalminers tonight were digging down to a trapped workmate at a colliery near Ipswich, in southern Queensland. Using bulldozers and earthmoving equipment, they were cutting a huge swathe of earth down beside a collapsed shaft. The trapped miner— Charles Kerslake, aged 39, married, with two children —was buried in a cave-in about 25 feet underground at 1.5 p.m. Mine officials and workmates believe there is a “one in a million" chance he could be alive. Two miners who entered the shaft with Kerslake barely escaped. They ran for their lives for nearly 70 feet up a one-in-three grade escaping from the shaft mouth as hundreds of tons of rock and earth closed in with a roar behind them. While machines dug down beside the shaft tonight, other machinery was being used to bore air holes to where Kerslake is believed to be trapped.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30288, 14 November 1963, Page 17
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