PITHEAD BLAZE
DAMAGE TOTALS £30,000.
FLAMES TOWER SIXTY FEET
(Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY,' This. Day,
One of the most disastrous pithead fires in the history of the northern coatfields caused £30,000 damage at Pelaw Main Colliery, Kurrikurri, during the night. All the buildings and screens were demolished, but the power house and engine rooms w T ere saved. After a great fight by several brigades the fire was prevented from extending to the pit. The flames leapt 60 feet above the mine buildings and the whole town and a radius of two miles were illuminated.
The cause of the outbreak is a mystery. About 400 miners will be thrown idle.
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Northern Advocate, 18 August 1931, Page 5
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