Poisoned by Dynamite Fumes.
o (Per Press Association.) Perth, April 2. Four men who were sinking a shaft at the 300 ft level of the Mount Charlotte Mine, in Kalgoorlie, dropped a burning candle mto a box containing cartridges of dynamite. One of them snatched the candle out before it reached the detonators, and so prevented an explosion, and they all rushed for the ladder, pursued by the fumes of the burning dynamite. They reached the top, but two were so overcome by the effects of the fumes that they died. The others are in a serious condition. This Day. Two more of the victims of the dynamite accident at the Charlotte mine, Kalgoorlie, have succumbed. Two others working in the higher levels who inhaled the fumes are lying in a critical condition.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 232, 3 April 1897, Page 2
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