Fatal Mining Accidents.
Sydney, Juue 10. A disastrous outbreak of gas occurred in the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburg. Three miners named Barton and Pugs, married, with large families, and Shipton, a single man, working in a drive were entombed. Strong rescue parties set to work, but met with great difficulty on account of i ho gas and heavy fulls from the roof. The place was reached in a few houra but the men were dead, apparently suffocated. There was no sign of an explosion. The other parts of the mine wore unaffected, and some of the miners were not aware of the accident until they had finished their shifts. Melbouune, June 10. Two miners named Highman and Grundy were killed by a fall of earth in the Sandhurst mine, Bendigo.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7653, 11 June 1896, Page 2
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