Dreadful Mining ACCIDENT.
The American letter of the Sydney Morning Herald contains the following account pff%^x^a^tutl^oident that occurred "at a coal r mine m 11 Jinoip a; sudden thrawcth'atjset ihsi— Tne mine is iin, the midst of a prairie. A shaft 751t deep, had been sunk m the ;^arjth,.an'i. at right; angles to -.this two 1 main galleries/were run, from which narrow spurs have been dug m various directipDisjfoljowingitheii ledge of coal. At times these spnrs rise to/ within; Jl2 fiir. i^feet off; the" surface. , At- such a c .point jtl^e, earth suddenly s £ate wayv 4nd , the water which had flooded the prarrie rio a depth of tix inches for many inile^, ' drained } into . the, : mine.;. No noise accompanied the rising of the water,' and an hour; ievery. avenue' of f eßcap» ;. was. cut- off. .Seventy poor ';j^\lowß,w eretD us drowned like rats m
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 123, 1 May 1883, Page 3
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145Dreadful Mining ACCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 123, 1 May 1883, Page 3
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