The Brunner Disaster.
♦ The report of the Royal Commis* sion set up to enquire into the Brunner mine disaster has been • forwarded to Ministers by the Go- . vernor. The report is a lengthy one. The Commissioners are of opinion that . the preliminary cause of the explosion was a " blown-out shot " in the No. 4 Bord of the east dip workings, fired by a person unknown, contrary , to the rules of the mine, in a part of the mind where no work should have been in progress ; secondly by the ignition of the coal-gas evolved from the surrounding coal as the result of the shot and the spreading of the flames throughout the dry portions of the mine ; thirdly, by the explosion of the coal dust raised by tbe concussion along the main road and working places. No direct evidence was obtained that the explosion was commenced by an accumulation of fire-damp or that its, extreme violence was due to the combustion of firedamp mixed with coal dust.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1896, Page 2
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167The Brunner Disaster. Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1896, Page 2
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