THE ELDORADO MINING DISASTER.
♦ EXTRAORDINARY NEGLECT ABOUT A BAKKICADE. [press association.] (Received August 19, 11.30 a.m.) Melbourne, This Day. The inquest on the victims of the Eldorado mining disaster has opened. 1 he only information of importance elicited so far is that three days prior to tho accident there wa? a slight inrneh of " slam." Thompson, one of the' victims, was instructed to ereot a barricade. According to the directions he received, the centre prop should havo been sunk in the ground 18 inohes, bnt be eank it only three or four inoheß. although he told the captain of the sbift that ho had Eunk it 18 inohes. Morrison, Thompson's assistant, subsequently aeked Thompson why he had misled the captain, but the latter retorted, " Mind yonr own business," adding that there was no danger to be feared. Morrison, beinj an inexperienced man, accepted Ihompson's statement, and was afraid to inform the captain of the shift, because it would make trouble Morrison saw the prop swaying at three o'clock on the morning of the accident, and told Thompson.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 43, 19 August 1895, Page 2
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177THE ELDORADO MINING DISASTER. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 43, 19 August 1895, Page 2
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