Disastrous Colliery Explosion FIVE MEN KILLED.
BEUTKB'S TBLB6BAMS.I Beceived April 20 9, a.m. Sydney, April 19. Telegrams from Lithgow, announce that a disastrous explosion occurred this after* noon at the Lithgow Colliery Company's pit which took fire a short time ago. At the time of the explosion 10 men were in the workings, five were killed, the others were rescued alive. This Day. Another death has occurred from the explosion of firedamp at Lithgow Colliery. The remaining four men are progressing favourably towards recovery. AH of the six men killed were married men, and & distressing scene ensue i at the pits mouth when the now a ot the accident became known. There was no lack of volunteers to search for their other comrades. Their efforts to rescue them were of a most heroic nature.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 133, 20 April 1886, Page 2
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