AUSTRALIAN.
£Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [kedter’s telegrams.] Received December 13th, 1.25 p.m. MEBBOURNE, December 13. The accident at the Australasian mine at Creswick was caused by the miners breaking into old workings. According to latest reports the water at midnight was rapidly diminishing, 50,000 gallons an hour being brought np by the pumps. It is expected that the men still in the mine will he reached this morning, hut it is feared that, if they have not been drowned, they wilj have been suffocated. Received December 11th, 2.10 p m. The debate in the Begislative Assembly on Mr Munro’s motion was continued to a late hour last night, hut was at length adjourned to to-day. Telegrams from Creswick, timed 11 a.m. to-day, reports that the water had not been ■sufficiently reduced at that time to allow of a descent into the mine, hut it is hoped that this may be possible during this afternoon.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2709, 13 December 1882, Page 3
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