LATEST CABLE HEWS.
—: - I Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE ELDORADO DISASTER. THE INQUEST. Seteived, August 19,11,30 a.m, Melbourne, August 19,4 hP The inquest on the victims of tile"* Eldorado mining disaster lias been opened, The only information of importance elicited bo far is that three days prior to the accident thure was a slight inrush of slum. Thompson, one of the victims, was instructed to erect a barricade. According to the directions' ho received the centre prop should have been sunk iu tlio ground eighteen inches, but he only sunk it three or four inches, although ho told tho Captain of the shift that he had sunk it eighteen inches. Morrison, Thompson's assistant, subseauontly asked Thompson why lie had misled the Captain, but the latter retorted, " Mind your own business," adding that thero was no dangor to be feared, Morrison, being an inexperienced man,accepted Thompson's statement, and was afraid to inform tho Captain of the shift, because it would make trouble. Morrison saw the prop o'clock on the morning of tho aciPl ' dent and told Thompson.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5107, 19 August 1895, Page 2
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175LATEST CABLE HEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5107, 19 August 1895, Page 2
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