MINE EXPLOSION
TWO BODIES RECOVERED [by cable—pbess assn.— copybight.] MELBOURNE, February 16. After making efforts throughout the night in choking dust and carbon monoxide fumes, rescue parties at the Wonthaggi coalmine were unable to find more than two bodies, one of which was so terribly mutilated that it was identifiable only by a twisted gold watch found in a pocket. The victim’ was identified as Harry Harper, aged 45. The other body was unrecognisable. Some members of the rescue party worked below for 15 hours on end. “It’s the next thing to hell I can imagine,” said one begrimed miner this morning. It is now believed that most of the remaining victims were trapped further along the mile-long east drive into which the rescuers have now penetrated only 500 yards. It may take three days to reach the bodies.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 8
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