SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
•— 26 MEX Sirj'l'OSKl) TO BE 'DIIUW'XED. [BY ELECTRIC TELEUKArir.— COI'VKHiIIT.j KECTEIi's TELEGRAMS. j MELisoi'iiNE, December 12. | News has been received from Creswick j that the Australasian gold mine has been flooded. Forty men were at work when ! an outbreak of water occurred. Of these, fourteen escaped, and twenty-six are still ■underground.. There is now forty feet of water in the main, shaft, and the pumps available are quite inadequate to cope i with the task of pumping out the mine. ' Arrangements are being made for j additional pumps and engine power. Faint hopes are entertained, however, that those in the miue will succeed in escaping. The scene at the mouth of the mine when the disaster was laude known was most distressing. i Lilt'T. , All hopes of rescuing t).c men alive, ~^fla ?re under the groun !, nave been | abandoned. _ j
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 51, 13 December 1882, Page 3
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142SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 51, 13 December 1882, Page 3
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