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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1753, 24 July 1895, Page 2

TERRIBLE MINING ACCIDENT SIX MEN BURIED Melbourne, July 19. Six men named Thomson, Dawkins, , Kneebone, and Burke, married men, with families, and Crane and Arm strong, single men, were working in McEvoy’s mine, Eldorado, when the end main drive collapsed through a rush of wafer, and the mine was flooded. The men are believed to be buried beneath a large body of sand. Strenuous efforts are being made to rescue them, but it is considered that tho case is hopeless. July 21. Thirty miners were in the mine when it collapsed. A young mart named Fletcher. pluckily rushed in and warned the remainder, who escaped with great difficulty. All the hope of rescuing the others alive has been abandoned. It is supposed that the' drive broke through into old workings which were filled with water. A DASTARDLY CRIME WHOLESALE POISONING OP > SHEARERS Brisbane, July 22. Details have been received of the wholesale poisoning of shearers at Bowen Downs. Eight men were poisoned in the first batch arid 49 in the second. The crime was effected by mixing arsenic in the bread and in a meat pudding An eye witness de- ■ scribes the scene as horrible, the men writhing about in every direction. One died and the others are in a dangerous condition* Police have been despatched to the scene. Last year Bown DpfpiS : was . concerned in; the strike difficulties, and many • free labourers were taken on who - are still retained. The perpetrators of the crime are as yet untraced. WRONG! ULLY CONFINED AS LEPERS. ’■ Brisbane, July 22. A sensation has been caused by the report that a white named Molloy, and a Kanaka, confined at the Leper Station, are not suffering from leprosy. The Government bacteriologist, who examined Molloy, found’ no traces of leprosy since he was separated from the other lepers. The Board of Health is enquiring into the matter. Y CHARITABLE REQUESTS. Hobart, July 22. The Premier has received a despatch from the Agent-General announcing that under the will of the late William Guesdon, of Hobart, £28,0Q0 are set aside for charities in Tasmania.