Terrible Colliery Disaster. 85 Miners Entombed. Sydney
A terrible disaster has taken, place at the Bulli Colliery by an explosion of firedamp. Eighty-five miners in the works are supposed to be all dead…
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Mining & the mines, 1887
10 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Bulli Colliery Disaster
THE Bulli catastrophe is a sad ending to the strike that laid the pits idle for so long. And it conveys a lesson. Mr. Mackenzie, Examiner of Coalfields,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Colliery Explosion. Supposed Explosion of Fire-damp in the Bulli Colliery.the Tunnel Completely Blocked. Seven Mini[?] Entombed
A [?] explosion occurred at the [?] coal [?] yesterday afternoon, when [?] seventy men were [?] Seven mutilated bodies have been found. It is expect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Colliery Explosion. Later Particulars. the Cause of the Explosion
As the work of recovering the bodies draws to wards a close and the painful excitement decreases, attention is being directed to the cause of the explosion, and to the reports of experts after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bulli Colliery Explosion
A TERRIBLE scene (says the Adelaide Observer of Mach 26) is being enacted at the mouth of the Bulli mine in the colony of New South Wales. Bulli is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Colliery Explosion
"SHE'S fired!" Of all the cries which a sense of sudden peril wrings from men there is surely none more awful than this. Try to realise what…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bulli Colliery Catastrophe
AT ten o'clock on Saturday, the 16th April, the Coroner proceeded to address the jury. It was the intention of the counsel engaged to review the evidence and point out its most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wonderful Things Produced from Our Bituminous Coal
Few persons have any idea of the wonderful products from a lump of coal -- a lump of coal that is placed in the retort of a gas manufactory. Ordinarily burned, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As Good As Gold
We clip the following letter appearing under the above heading, from the Maitland Mercury of the 21st inst,: -- Sir, -- Under the above heading would you…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pure Gold. (From the Cornhill Magazine
IT is a pleasant thought, indeed, for the poor man to know that gold is even now still growing. Mr. Brough Smyth has shown that it can be deposited now-a-days in appreciable quantities within…
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