MT. MORGAN DISASTER.
A SLIDE OF ROCK. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,) Brisbane, September 7. Tlio fall of rook in tlio Mount Morgan mino on Saturday evening, which killed seven miners, took placo in one of the largo copper ore chambors, a large mass coming clean away from the roof and side in tho shapo' of a slide/ 1 This part of the Mount Morgan mino was considered exceptionally safo. It is believed that constant blasting operations loosened tho earth and rock. Tho victims were working on contract.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 5
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87MT. MORGAN DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 5
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