The Lithgow Colliery on Fire.
TWO MEN fcUFfc'OCATED,
(BY ELECTRIC TELKGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.) ** % i (BUITER'B TELEGRAMS.) Sydney, Monday. Tho Lithgow collery hani taken firo, and thn-e m «n are known to ha m the workings. The whole place is now a mass of smoke. Every effort is being made to re«cue those who are down, but it is feared the exertions will prove fruitless. •Later. tplesrrams are to hand from Lithgow, relative to the outbreak of fire m one of th<* co il minas near th^ township. Tlie exertions mede to rescue the mine manager and two miners who wore unabie to escape, resulted m recovering the mine manager m a conscious state. The othor two inon were brought op dead, apparently suffocated. Latest. The fire is still burning iv the Lithgow Colliery, all efforts to extinguish tlje flames have proved unavailing. The manager of the mine who was rescued iv a'state of insensihilitv has since died.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1636, 16 February 1886, Page 4
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156The Lithgow Colliery on Fire. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1636, 16 February 1886, Page 4
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