BELLBIRD MINE
CHIEF INSPECTOR’S REPORT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and K.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, September 6. The Chief Inspector of Mines, in a report on the Bellbird disaster, which was submitted to the Cabinet, elates that up to the present the records indicated no presence of fire-damp; consequently naked lights were used. There had boon two small fines prior to this one—-tho first in 1917 and the second in 1919—both of which were apparently caused by njikcd lights accidentally igniting th© brattice. So far as tho inspector could ego, last week’s fire appeared u> be caused accidentally, but by what means ho was unable to say. Tho report suggests that when tho fire started tho ventilation evidently fanned it into flames, and the coal, being high in volatiles, the outbreak spread rapidly, distilling gas from the coal. As a result of this there were a number of explosions, two of which occurred while the rescuers were in tho mine.
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Evening Star, Issue 18374, 7 September 1923, Page 4
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