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Mining & the mines, 1902

511 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 26

The Maitland Coal Mines. the Kast Greta Company. Railways and Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 4

The directors of the East Greta Coalmining and Railway Company are having great alterations and improvements effected to their railway line in order to meet the increased requirements of the coal,…

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Frightful Colliery Catastrophe. at Mount Kembla. 300 Men Reported Entombed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Thursday, 2 30 p.m.—News has just been received that a terrible explosion has occurred at Mount Kembla Colliery. A…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. Explosion at Mount Kkmbla. Over Sixty Men Killed. Hundreds of Others Entombed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 3

A brief message published in our daily issue on [?]sday stated that an explosion had occurred at sent Kembla Colliery and that serious results were [?]ed, but from the following information (gathered…

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The Greatest Mining Catastrophe. Sixty Bodies So Far Recovered. Hundreds of Men Entombed. Heart-breaking Scenes. Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 3

[?] latest news from Mount Kembla shows that up to five o'clock this morning 149 men have been re[?]cued alive, and up to 7 a.m. sixty dead bodies has been recovered. The anguish of winow[?],…

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Greta Colliery Fire. Commissioner's Finding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 7

Mr. G. C. Wade, who as Special Commissioner, held an inquiry, under section 23 of the Coalminos Regulation Act, into the matter of the Greta…

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The Mine on Fire

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 5

the men who are still entombed were engaged in No. 1 district of the mine, and it is feared that this section is on fire. The chance of these men…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 10

Five of the men alleged to have caused tho recent riot at Outtiim, in connection with the late strike, were prosecuted on Friday at the local court. Two of them were discharged, but Coulten, the…

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The Fire in Greta Colliery. Commissioner's Report

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 10

Mr. G. C. Wade, who as Special Commissioner recently held an inquiry, under section 23 of tho Coalmines Regulation Act, into the matter of the Greta Colliery fire which broke out on December 5th,…

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The Mining Disaster

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 4

This terrible mining disaster that occurred at the Mount Kembla Colliery on Thursday last, comes as a shock to all classes of the community…

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The Coal Supplies of the World

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 10

Professor Ferdinand Fischer, of Gottingen, contributes Rome interesting statistics regarding the existing supplies of coal to a Gorman, scientific publication. Professor Fischer comes…

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Colliery Explosion at Mount Kembla. 300 Men Entombed. WOLLONGONG

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

NEWS has just been received that a terrible explosion has occurred at Mount Kembla Colliery. A telephone mes sage received asked that all doctors be…

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In a Western Mining Camp

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 3

"Some of you know, probably," said the man in the mackintosh, "that I spent a summer out West, some years ago, in a mining camp…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. Explosion at Mount Kembla. Twenty-seven Men Killed. a Hundred Others Entombed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 4

A brief message published in our daily issue on Thursday stilted that an explosion had occurred at Mount Kembla Colliery and that serious results wore feared, but from the following information (gathered…

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Terrile Mining Disaster. Explosion at Mt. Kembla Mihe, 250 Men Entombed. 100 Rescued. 26 Bodies Recovered. 130 Still Missing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 4

SHORTLY after 6 o'clock on Thursday night a wire was received at this office stating that an explosion had occurred that afternoon at the Mount…

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Tub Mine Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 August 1902 · page 2

Attention is still claimed by the dreadful dreadful calamity at Mount Kembla, as the roll of the dead is being enlarged. An inquiry into causes doubtless will add somewhat to the…

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The Maitland Coal Mines. Abound Heddon Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 4

The new collieries at Heddon-Greta, Stanford-Merthyr, and Pelaw-Main continue to make good progress, and at each place one hears of the most hopeful prospects for the future. Everybody appears…

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The Mount Kembla Colliery Disaster

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 4

IT is now estimated that the total loss of life in the terrible Mount Kembla Colliery disaster number 86. In the mine on Thursday, there were 240…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 3

A good deal of time was lost at several of the [?]lieries during the past fortnight. Fair prospects [?] showing for next pay. The time worked, as by the shipping managers, is as follows:—…

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The Colliery Disaster. Later Particulars Sydney, Monday afternoon

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 2

IT is now stated that the death-roll of the Mount Kembla mining disaster amounts to 95 (or more than stated in the account given on our fourth…

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A Dreadful Disaster. Mount Kembla Mine Ex Plodes. 80 Men Killed Fifty Still Entombed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 2

A dreadful colliery explosion took place at the Mount Kembla Colliery. Wollongong, shortly after 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, at a time when…

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