WYALONG DISASTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1912, Page 5

WYALONG DISASTER.

EKE INQUIEX MSPENED.

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SYDNEY, Jan. 15

Tiee iinqiaest into tfee <oause of th^J .West Wyalong disaster 'has opened. It was .sstisted that th© anen ywere leav- : ing wmn'k a« usual, when a shot was put iaau Tire men withdrew., but apparently the old workings wer^ broken mio., .causing a amsn <of gas. Wellingttfffl escapedl th© full foroe, through bemg jim a oross-csst., -mid the alarm was gtv<en.

A brother of -one of the deceased, \wiio xvv.s working in a difforient -part of the mine, with.a relief party wrenv 3vwn ajid found the bodies.

Although stiffer"in.g consid^a'lfly from the effects of the1 ,airJiLie l-escutti's r«moared the Jjodies to the surface.

A sorrowful .scene oo^inrred at the mouth of the shaft, «m<l the wives of the dieceasfid }i«d forcibly to be removed.to theij- hom«si.

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