Fatal Mining Accident.
(Per Press Association). Melbourne, July 21. Six men were working in McEvoy's mine, the Eldorado, when the end of the main drive collopsed through a rush of water, and the mine was flooded. Thirty miners were in the mine when it collapsed. A young man named Fletcher pluckily rushed in aud warned the remainder who escaped with great difficulty. All hopes of rescuing the others has been abandoned. It is supposed that the drive broke through into the old workings which were rilled with water. Many survivors of the Eldorado disaster were knocked down. Nearly all the lights were extinguished, trucks overthrown, and timbers blown down by the concussion. A deafening noise ■was beard at the surface. Some of the men waded almost to their necks in slush in order to reach the main drive. A rushing torrent carried a boulder just behind them which stuck at the entrance of the drive, and damned back the flood I and thus enabled them to escape.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 19, 22 July 1895, Page 2
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