THE MINING DISASTER.
United Press A ssociation-By Electric TelegraphCopyright. Eeceived March 24, 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, March 24. The bodies of Haddon, Mowbray and the lad M'Dougall have been found dreadfully burned and decomposed. Later on the bodies of Jones and Rudge were found. All had died from inhaling poisonous gas. The bodies of the two latter were unreI cognisable except by the clothes. Received March 25, ».45 a.m. SYDNEY, March 25. Owing to a fresh fire having broken out, or an increase of one of the fires located in the Dudley pit, the search parties were withdrawn, and the work of searching for | the bodies suspended till to-day.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6137, 25 March 1898, Page 3
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108THE MINING DISASTER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6137, 25 March 1898, Page 3
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