The Eldorado Mine Disaster.
(Per Press Association). Sydney, August 5. The fire is practically extinguished at the Eldorado mine. Melbourne, August 6. The last messages from the buried miners have created a painful sensation here. No one in the district believes for a moment that the messages were written at 6 o'clock, or the same Saturday morning as the disaster occurredMiners are not given to write such hopeless messages two hours after they found themselves blocked in. Again, knowing that they were entombed for at least a a few days, they would husband their scant crib and supply of tea. The messages were clearly not written on the billies until the tea was exhausted. The general opinion is that the poor fellows wrote the last letter days after the disaster'oceutred-^^^^^^^^
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 33, 7 August 1895, Page 2
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130The Eldorado Mine Disaster. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 33, 7 August 1895, Page 2
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