The Colliery Explosion at Bulli.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2048, 28 March 1887, Page 2

The Colliery Explosion at Bulli.

This sad a flair, which occurred last Wednesday, has caused wide spread sympathy with the sufferers by it. Bulli is a little town near Wollongong, in New South Wales, and the Bulli Mining Company carry on operations on the side of a mountain close to the township. How tbo explosion occurred no one as yet can tell. Safety lamps were used by the men who bare been entombed. It is estimated that 85 miners were in the tunnel at the time of the accident, and moat of them have wives and families. Tremendous efforts have been made to dislodge the hundreds of tons of rock dislodged by the explosion and which forms the barrier between the living and the supposed dead The scene among the wives and children at the pit mouth is most heartrending. Rescue parlies rush into the tunnel regardless of danger, Tor the first half-mile the air is good, and the tunnel prettv clear, but it gradually becomes worse, and the air thick and heavy. However, undaunted they proceed, over rocks and fallen timber, and in almost absolute darkness. The sides and roofs of the tunnels are twisted as if they were matchwood. Kodies are met with here and there most of them being covered with cloud. Then the men of the party will be overcome and compelled to return in a semi-conscious state, but they are not taken out at the mouth of the tunnel for lear of raising false hopes. Latest news stales that S3 bodies have been recovered, and u is believed that there are no more now in the taioe.

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