DEADLY DYNAMITE FUMES
MINERS SUFFOCATED. FATAL RESCUE EFFORT. GAVE LIFE FOR HIS COMRADE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Dec. 7. 10.35 a.m.) PERTH, 'Dec. 7. Two miners, Kenneth McLaren (24) and Albert Cole (26) were asphyxiated by dynamite fumes at the Phoenix mines at Morsemen. After a charge had been fired Cole descended, and when no signal was received McLaren volunteered to investigate. He found Cole in a state of collapse, but before he could rescue him he was himself overcome. The two were brought to the surface but died soon after.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19123, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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