MULLIGAN TRAGEDY.
SIXTY-NINE BODIES RECOVERED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.—. Cable Association. BRISBANE, September 22. After seventy-two hours’ work the rescuers are about exhausted. To date sixty-nine bodies have been recovered, leaving about five to be found in the debris. A GRUESOME SPECTACLE. BRISBANE, September 22. The Chillagoe mining warden believes that the explosion was due to coal dust and that tho whole of tho workings were destroyed. Of the bodies recovered fifty-four have been identified. The corpses bore the appearance of being suddenly struck by terrific heat and flame. The most grue-* some sight of all was several men, whose position suggested that they had seen some awful terror approaching and had raised their hands to ward it off. Almost all the bodies recovered had been injured by falling timber. The big grave-digging gangs are hardly able to cope with the work.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16538, 23 September 1921, Page 5
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