MOUNT LYELL DISASTER.
!• ' FOREMAN'S ACTION PRAISED. 1 Br Telegraph—Press Assoolatlon—GopnteM ' ' Hobart, January 8. | Mi 1 . Cunningham, secretary of the Lyell [ branch ;of the Miners'• Union, in giving . evidence, before the Commission of In-" • quiry into the North Mount Lyell disasI tor, said that ho had nevor, as secretary • of tho union, written to tho Department !. suggesting'■ that:the men were dissatisfied! j with tho means of exit from tho North , Lyell mine, nor had ho asked tliiit a sec- . ond exit b(y provided. ) Deoollie, one of the men who had Leen V working, at the 850 ft, level," said that Cox, 1 tho underground foreman, had acted ad- ~ mirably. Tho majority of those saved at the 850 ft. level owed their lives to him. Ryan, shift boss at the, 1000 ft. level, said even if Uiere had been no. smoke j tho inoii vi'iltl not have been liblo to get out exec;!! '•• Way of the main shaft. The funi"- ho bad that had tile shift been within GOlt. of No. 10 stopo tho men 1 could not. have got through. Some who i tried died within 30ft. of tho stope..
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 7
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189MOUNT LYELL DISASTER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 7
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