KILLED BY BLACK DAMP
NEW SOUTH WALES MINER HEROIC RESCUE EFFORT Reed. 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. A miner, Joseph Bedford, was overcome by black damp while sinking a coal shaft near Wallsend, Newcastle. A man named Thomas, who was working near by, was attracted to the spot by Bedford’s young brothers. He went down the shaft despite the deadly fumes, and was twice forced to come up owing to their effects. At the third time he managed to get a rope round Bedford and" hauled him to the surface dead.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 13
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