SHOCKING MINING CATASTROPHE.
* 26 MEN DROWNED. [REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] (Received Dec 12, 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec 12. News has been received from Creswick that the Australasian gold mine has been flooded. Forty men were at work when an outbreak of water occurred. Of these, fourteen escaped, and twenty-six are still underground. There is now forty feet of water in the main shaft, and the pumps available are quite inadequate to cope with the task of pumping out the mine. Arrangements are being made for additional pumps and engine power. Faint hopes are entertained, however that those in the mine will succeed in escaping. The scene at the mouth of the mine when the disaster was made known was most distressing. (Received Dec. 13, 1-15 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The accident was caused by miners breaking into the old workings. According to reports, the water at midnight was rapidly diminishing. 50,000 gallons an hour are being brought up by pumps. It is expected that the men still in the mine will be reached this morning; but it is feared that if they have not been drowned they will have been suffocated.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 971, 13 December 1882, Page 3
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189SHOCKING MINING CATASTROPHE. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 971, 13 December 1882, Page 3
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