THE ELDORADO DISASTER.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. -, : i ■ Melbourne, August 6. The Uat messages of the buried Eldorado miners'have created’a painful sensation. No one in the district believes for a moment that the messages were written at 6 o’clock on the' same Saturday morning as the disaster occurred. ’Miners as a rule are not given to write such hopeless messages two hours after finding - themselves blocked in. : ' ’ . Again, <• knowing that they were entombed for at least some days; they would husband their scanty food and their supply of tea. The Messages were clearly not written on the billies until the tea was ex* hausted. ’ ' The’ general opinion is that the poor follows wrote the last message days after the disaster occurred. • ’■
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2582, 7 August 1895, Page 2
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120THE ELDORADO DISASTER. New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2582, 7 August 1895, Page 2
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