Terrible Colliery Disaster.

Manawatu Herald, 2 August 1902, Page 2

Terrible Colliery Disaster.

EXPLOSION IN THE MOUNT, ; KEMBLA MINE. * A disastrous explosion has occurred at the Mount Kembla colliery, forty 4 miles south of Sydney. -3 A loud report was heard at Woolongohg, seven miles away. All the doctors of the district have ? gone to the mine. $ The force of the explosion at the Mount Kembla mine destroyed tele- j phonic communication between Wool- I ongong and the mine, hence there has been difficulty in getting information. . . & The explosion occurred in No. 1 flat. The report was terrific, and was distinctly heard at Woolongong and in the surrounding country for ten miles distant. Thousands of tons of debris Tie about the pit’s mouth. . i A lad named Nelson was killed. Weston, a fireman, who was working at the engines was pinned to the earth by the wreckage. Gemmel, a wheeler who struggled Lj from the mine; declares that he’ passed four dead men inside. Relief parties were formed,-and ninety men were rescued. Most ol | them are suffering from threffeets of after-damp.’ - ■ SCENES AT -THE MINE. The scene. along the road to the mine and at the mine is heartrending. . ' | Women fainted, and many rushed, .. about distractedly, calling the names, - \*| of their husbands and sons. • Ij

Immediately after the explosion 4k men began to come out of the tunnel ,sj in batches of half a dozen, but a, p hundred and fifty still' remain' otftombed. ' f The greater portion of the buildings at tbe entrance to the mine came tumbling down through the force of* - the explosion. A leg separated from a minec’fl ? body was found in the debris. ‘ * Two bodies were discovered on the. surface. As each coal-begrimed man issued from the tunn 1, women, with babies in their arras, scrutinised his face ill the hope of finding their own. lloscae parties were quickly or-^ ; ganised, but their efforts were bam** pereci through inability to locate the fscene of the disaster. ’ Amongst those'entombed are six members of one family. , .■* The disaster is believed to be dud’ 1 ,! to an accumulation of gas in the old V. workings. . . The mine is a well-ventilated' One. Five bodies have been recovered.'." There were close on two hundred’ and fifty men at work in the mine at the time of the disaster. " f , Mr Bates, Government Inspector for the district, w&s making periodical inspection, in with the underground manager, the explosion occurred. Mr was got out, insensible, and knocked 1 " about, but the manager (Mr was killed. , , v'fjj One hundred and twenty men have - effected their escape. The rest ate still in the mine. v-'-^ The relief party has cleared the, tunnel of debris. The ramifications of tbe mine ' extend for some five miles into# hiiW The explosion - in the first section.. It is possible that tbe N i#cn in the back workings may be safe.' ' - '' After-damp at the entrance to the \ , mine is impeding the work of tescn(S.“ * The following are the rfamespof the men whose bodies have been covered Nelson, Skiilon, Hartley/ * . Blackett, Brennan, Gallagher, (2), and the boy Nelson. - ' ' ;| Parliament adjourned out of syra«“ T pathy with the sufferers.

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