BROKEN HILL MINE.
SURFACE BUILDINGS FIRED. By Telegraph.—Press Aasn.—Copyright. Sydney, July 31. The greater portion of the surface workings of the south mine at Broken Hill lias been destroyed. It is estimated that the damage is about £600,000. It will be 18 months to two years before operations, can be resumed, and a thousand miners will be-rendered idle for that period. It is suspected that the fire was caused by the. I.W.W-. as it broke out in four placeß at onee, and the telephones were tampered with, the firemen receiving the alarm through the mine whistles.—Aus. N 2. Cable ASswe.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1919, Page 5
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