COLLIERY DISASTER.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION CAUSE OF DISASTER. SYDNEY, Sept. 0. The Chief Inspector of Alines’ report on the Bellbird disaster has been submitted to Cabinet. It states that up to the present, the records indicated no presence of firedamp. Consequently naked lights were used. There had been two small fires prior to this, the lirst in 1917. and the second in 1919. Apparently they wore caused by naked lights, accidentally igniting the brattice. As far as the inspector could see. last week’s fire appeared to be caused accidentally, but by what means he was unable to say. The report suggests that when the lire started, the ventilation evidently fanned it to llames, and this mine’s coal being high in volatiles, tho outbreak spread rapily. distilling gas from the coal. As a result of this, there were a number of explosions, two of which occurred while tlie rescuers were in the
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1923, Page 3
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153COLLIERY DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1923, Page 3
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