MT. LYELL MINE
INQUIRY RESUMED,
ALABM OF FIRE TAKEN AS A JOKE.
(Received Jan'ua.-v 7, 5>.25 a.m.) HOB ART, January ?. The Norths Lyell Mine disaster inquiry has resumed.
Coulter, a draughtsman, said he was working tho ssoft level when the alarm of fire was given, but a number of the .men there took it as it joke. •;'..''■.
Co.v, an underground foreman, who was working at the 850ffc level, eaid '
he sent four cages away aood went up in the fifth. Nobody answered his call. Witness was the Jatrt to leave. Eight men were "left in No. 20 stope, who declined to follow. One said: "No, it is arfOsafe as a house here." the. smoke was verv 'thick. considered it 'would. have l»een the same if several exits had existed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 January 1913, Page 5
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129MT. LYELL MINE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 January 1913, Page 5
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