MINERS’ HARD FIGHT TO AVERT PIT FIRE
(11.29 a.m.) SYDNEY, Mar. 7 Miners at the Aberdare central colliery, Cessnook, have been working continuously since Friday night in an attempt to prevent fire from sweeping through the pit. A fall of 600 tons of coal heated up and threatened to catch alight. Volunteers were called to clear it and every miner turned out.
By early today they had cleared 400 tons of coal and the danger is considered to be past as the rest of the lcose coal is reasonably cool. The fall was 1250 feet below the suiface and only 50 yards from the bottom of the mine. When the trouble started men in respirators scattered dry ice on the coal. Two brothers, Messrs. Fred and Stanley Creswell, established a record by shifting 40 tons of coal in six hours.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 6
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140MINERS’ HARD FIGHT TO AVERT PIT FIRE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 6
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