THE MINE ON FIRE
STRIKE TEMPORARILY FORGOTTEN
MEN BUBH TO HELP.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,)
BRISBANE, 13th September,
A telephone message received at Bockhampton from Mount Morgan stated that the headgear of the mine /is bn\ fire. Miners rallied from all parts of the town to the rescue. The strikers commandeered inotorbuses and other vehicles, and rushed to assist at the fife at the mine. The situation of the outbreak is alarming, and in the absonce of lights the work of locating the fire is very dangerous, tho sulphur fumes being' almost unbearable. Apparently the men, who rushed to the mine in.large: numbers, cheeked the outbreak.'
The fire caused the industrial trouble to be forgotten for. the time being. The situation has now quietened) although pickets are still vigilant. ' .. J
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 65, 14 September 1925, Page 5
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129THE MINE ON FIRE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 65, 14 September 1925, Page 5
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