Mount Lyell Mine Disaster

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVIII, Issue 14882, 18 October 1912, Page 2

Mount Lyell Mine Disaster

Fifty Miners Rescued •" . w v . n - October 16. The fifty ranters who had been in the I,ooft level of Lyell mine since were brought safely to The. stir- % "i face to-day, ■ / The majority of them reached the surface in good condition after their four days’ entombment and w^t 0f f6 ° d - ; f . '-V As the mafii shaft-was«uot avail V; able, owing to the cage being/j£, jammed in the shaft, tioii with the entombed miners. was established through the engine winze. \ The men were lakeit fo tbeengine and theu hauled to die surface, ' .TT ./