MESSAGE FROM POSTMASTER
The following further telegram has been received from the Chief Postmaster, Greymouth, in connection with tho Dobson Mine disaster:— | "Dobson mine disaster: Mine on fire, impossible rescue parties enter, and deI cided to seal mine for three days; apI parently no hope for five entombed men. Ashton died before reaching hospital." An earlier message 'from the Postmaster refers to a tenth man involved, name unknown, but this does not coincide with the other accounts. He also stated that another explosion, was feared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 8
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85MESSAGE FROM POSTMASTER Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 8
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