MINING ACCIDENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9304, 21 March 1907, Page 5

MINING ACCIDENT.

LOSS OF LIFE FEARED

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received March 21, 10 a.m.)

PERTH, March 21,

A sudden inrush of water from the WestraJJa- East mine caught nine men in the workings. Eight escaped and the entombed mam was subsequently heard knocking. It wil, however, take ten days to get the water out (bf the mine, and the chances of a rescue tare considered-p oor. , >