Overcome by Fumes Miners' Narrow Escape
Several men working in Hillside Colliery, a small mine in the gully beyond the terminus of the Glebe tramway, were overcome by fumes at a late hour last…
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Mining & the mines, 1927
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Truck, Shortage Serious Position at Teralba Mines Affected Railman Promises Relief SYDNEY
A serious position has arisen at the collieries in the Teralba district owing to shortage of Government trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Black Damp Fumes Miners Overcome in Pit Tunnel Escape at Hillside Officials Arrange for Check Inspection
Miners driving a bord towards old workings had narrow escapes when they were overcome by black damp fumes in the middle tunnel at Hillside Colliery, near Glebe tram terminus, at about 10 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fight with Fire Grim Struggle in English Pit Gallant Rescuers Miners' General President as Life-saver
A gallant fight with fire was waged in an English colliery, following an explosion which entombed fifteen men. Three were fatally gassed. A rescue party, including the miners' general president,…
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The dispute at Ayrfield Colliery in regard to the majority of the miners desiring to depart from the custom of the miners and the wheelers to share on a…
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Sir,—In the issue of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" of April 8 appears a letter over the name of Mr. E. Gibson, on the federation, the Killingworth notice…
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The northern office of the Miners' Federation will remain open to-night until half-past eight o'clock, and will be closed at that hour until the usual…
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Inspector G. H. D. Thompson, of the Department of Mines, accompanied by Mr. J. W. Iceton, check inspector of the northern branch of the Miners'…
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Mr. T. Hoare, northern miners' president, returned to Newcastle late on Tuesday night, after a two days' sitting of the Coal Tribunal in Sydney dealing with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glen Ayr Mine Prospectof Early Start
Though Glen Ayr Colliery, which has been held up since February 21 on account of gas, is not yet fit for a resumption of work in the opinion of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial Matters Wallarah Miners Award Withheld
Mr. T. Hoare president of the Northern, Branch of the Miners' "Federation, stated yesterday that at the sitting of the general Coal Tribunal on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Fatality Three Men Killed. London
Fifteen men were entombed and three fatally gassed when a live wire fractured at Wharncliffe colliery, Barnsley, yesterday and caused an explosion…
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There were only a few miners in attendance at Ayrfield colliery yesterday morning, and work was not resumed. The wheelers did not present themselves for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Port of London Seaborne Coal Trade
"Tis Wallsend you have in this time A coal which gives but little grime, Gives satisfaction in the grate, Though large in bulk and small in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Entombed Miners New York
Twenty-six men are reported to be entombed in a coal mine at Henrietta, in Oklahoma. Twenty feet of water entered the shaft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flooded Out Extensive Cessnock Damage Mine Dam Bursts Residents Driven From Home
Immense damage has been done in the Cessnock district owing to floods: Many houses in low lying areas,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Saved Miners Trapped by Water Nearly a Tragedy Tulsa (U.s.a.)
Twenty-six men were reported to have been entombed by the collapse of the roof of a coal mine at Henryetta, in the State of Oklahama,…
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It is reported from Brussels that there has been an explosion of fire damp in a mine at Estinnes. Twenty-six dead men have been brought…
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It is reported from Warsaw that rich deposits of alluvial gold have been discovered in a Polish Silesian swamp region, extending for eighty miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Work Impeded
A regrettable sequence to the big subsidence it the Soccer Football Club's ground is the fact that the working of the Wallsend Colliery has been impeded…
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