VICTORIAN MINING ACCIDENT.
FIVE MEN SAVED AND 21 FOUND DEAD.
Received 14/12, 1 p.m. MELBOURNE, This Day. The announcement of the finding of other three bodies in the Australasian mine is now contradicted. The divers have been found to be utterly useless, and the foul air has so far arrested the progress of the relief party. According to latest reports the miners are entombed alive in the Eleven Jump Works. Later telegrams from Crcswick, timed 7 a.m., report that the relievers have ascended a shaft of the mine, all cheering lustily, and have stated that when in the mine, near the Eleven Jump Works, the entombed miners plainly repeated : " All right : we are all safe." It is hoped they may be rescued within an houi\ Great excitement and enthusiasm prevails at the entrance of the mine, where crowds of people are collected. Later, Telegram just received, timed 10.40 a.m., from Creswick, reports that five men have heen saved from the mine, but the remaining twenty-one were all dead when the relievers reached them.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 370, 14 December 1882, Page 3
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173VICTORIAN MINING ACCIDENT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 370, 14 December 1882, Page 3
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