MINE CALAMITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1921, Page 5

MINE CALAMITY.

MOKE BODIES FOUND.

SIXTY-NINE TO DATE. GRUESOME WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 23, 12.50 a.m. Brisbane, Sept. 22. After seventy-two hours’ work the rescuers at Mulligan are about exhausted. To date 69 bodies have been recovered, leaving about five to be found in the debris. The Chillagoe mining warden believes the explosion is due to coal dust, and that the whole of the workings were destroyed. Of the bodies recovered 54 have been identified. The corpses bore the appearance of having been suddenly struck by a terrific heat flame. The most sight of all was several men whose position suggested they had seen some awful terror approaching and had. raised their hands to ward it off. Almost all the bodies recovered have been injured by falling timber. Big grave digging gangs are hardly able to cope with the work.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MORE BODIES RECOVERED. COLLAPSE OF . A MANAGER. Brisbane, Sept. 22. Fifty-six bodies have been recovered from the Mulligan mine. The rescue gangs are working heroically, but the atmosphere in the mine is so bad’ that it is doubtful if the work can continue even with the aid of respirators. * Mr. Watson, manager, collapsed and now has a high temperature and is in the doctors’ hands suffering acutely. He had refused to rest and repeatedly led parties into the tunnel.

The names of other victims identified axe: Risley, M'Cormack, Marks, J. Drier, jun., J. Drier, sen., Johnson, Harrison, Lomax, Nixon, Jackson, Pole, James, M'Colm, Mannhey, Butcher, Boyle, Speirs, Ostle, Henry Carson, James Mansfield, Lawson, O’Halloran, Fogarty, Thompson, Seymour, Fisher.