AUSTRALIAN MINING HERO.
FALLS ON EVIL DAYS. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Melbourne, September 12. Diver Hughes, of West Australian mining rescue fame, has fallen on evil days. Illness prevented him from working during the past year. A public appeal having brought only a poor response, a deputation asked Mr. Fisher, the Federal Prime Minister, to provide Hughos with work to enable him to maintain his wife and six children. Mr. Fisher requested that the matter should bo left in his hands. He declared that if ever there was a hero in this country it was Hughes. Hughes, a working miner with a knowledge of diving, was instrumental in saving the life of a miner named Varischetti, who had been entombed in the workings of a mine for about ten days. A sudden inrush of water flooded the Westrolia East mine, catching nine men in the workings. Eight escaped, but one, Varischetti, remained imprisoned up a rise on the 1000 ft. level. Hughes, in diving dres3, succeeded in reaching Varischetti, and took food to him. When the water had been sufficiently reduced to enable him to wade through it without his diving dress 'Hughes assisted Varischetti to the surface.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1231, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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197AUSTRALIAN MINING HERO. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1231, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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