Coolgardie Gold Fields.
RAVAGED BY FEVER AND THIRST. (Per Press Association). Pkbth, Deer. 19. The new duplicate telegraph line be- , tween Perth and the goldfields has proved a complete failure owing to tbe manner in which tbe wires were erected Between fever and thirst the goldfields are gaining anything but enviable notoriety. Many camps are ravaged by typhoid. A party of miners wbo had sold their claim at Dnndas for L 5.000 started to walk to Coolgardie. They got as far as a place called Sandy Soak, 55 miles from Coolgardie, and discovered their water had given out. Two named McN alty and O'Connor went ia search of water. Thieve clothes and swags were afterwards found thrown about, and it is supposed the unfortunate men became delirious, wandered away and perished miserably.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 147, 20 December 1895, Page 2
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