MINE DISASTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 September 1923, Page 7

MINE DISASTER.

HORSE SENSE

A WARNING DISREGARDED

SYSTEM IN WORKING MINES

CONDEMNED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received Sent. 6, 10.45 a.m

SYDNEY Sept. 6. The situation at Cessnock is gloomy and depressing, following Saturday's disaster. Many theories are circulating among miners respecting the catastrophe, one being that the horses had to be whipped into the mines on Saturday, as their instinct intimated danger.

Mr Estell, ex-Minister for Mines, speaking in the Legislative Council, said that the mine owners should be compelled to tunnel through the far end of the leases from where the coal should be cut and work back. The present system was entirely wrong, as when the coal was cut away the debris formed gases, and also tended to cut off the retreat of the men in the event of their attemoting to escape.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Ass'n.