Brunner Mine Disaster.
ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT. (Per Press Association) Wellington. June 22. The report of the Royal Commission on the Brunner disaster has been published, and the Commissioners find that the mine was not one in which firedamp was likely to occur suddenly. The ventilation was ample and the machinery perfect and sufficient for the requirements. The mine, too, was under efficient management. They express the opinion that the explosion occurred in the eastern part of the dip workings, and extended to the west dip, and from the manner in which the rescuers suffered the fire damp contained an unusual proportion of carbonic oxide gas or white damp. The preliminary cause of the explosion, they say, was through a blown out shot fired by a person unknown contrary to the rules of the mine when no work should have been in progress.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 298, 23 June 1896, Page 2
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142Brunner Mine Disaster. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 298, 23 June 1896, Page 2
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