Fatal Mining Accidents.
(Per Press Association.) ;> •■:'•'',■ Sydney, June 10. A disastrous outbreak of gas occurred in the Metropolitan coUieify,-at Helensburg. Three men—Barton and -Pugs (married, with large families) and Shipton, an EngUshman— working in the drive were entombed. Strong rescue parties set to work, but met great difficulty on account of gas and falls from the roof. The place was reached in a few hours, but the men were dead, apparently suffocated. Melsoubne, June 10. Two nriners,^ Higman and Grundy, were killed /by a fall of . earth at the : Sandhurst mine, Bendigo.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 288, 11 June 1896, Page 3
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