Coal-trimmers Without Wages
Owing to the sudden disappearance of a stevedore from Newcastle over 100 coal-trimmers are lamenting their week's wages…
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Telegraphic. New South Wales. the Coal Mines Act. the Compulsory Weighing of Coal. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney, Friday Night
A deputation representing the leading coal companies waited upon the Minister for Mines to-day, with the view of asking him to amend the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold and Blood
Many years, ago I knew a man who expended a great part of a large fortune in buying gold, in coin and in bare. This be melted, and with human blood and other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goldfields Near Cooma
At Cooma two new goldfields have been reported during the week, but nothing has transpired to warrant a rush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest. London, March 13. [?]Cotch Colliery Disaster Heroism and Self [?]Acrifice
The Muldhou[?]burn Colliery, at Muirkirk, in Ayrehire, Scotland, has been flooded. Many miners were entombed. Sixteen were r[?]ed after being imprisoned for a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flooding of a Scotch Mine. Splendid Heroism of Rescuers. Three Men Drowned—sixteen Rescued. London
Through the sudden flooding of a colliery in Ayrshire, Scotland, a number of the miners wore entombed. Sixteen were rescued after having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American War Preparations. Fortifications and Mine Defences. London
The United States authorities are fortifying the Fortguas Islands, in the Gulf of Mexico, intending to make the islands the base of naval operations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Cobar
The energetic management of the Great Cobar Copper Mine have started to to erect another water jacket (the fourth), which, when completed, will mean the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Entombed in a Coal Mine. the Fate of Fourteen Miners. Escape Impossible. Newcastle, Monday. 2 p.m
FOURTEEN miners are entombed owing to an explosion in the Dudley colliery. There is no chance of their rescue, Latest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Disaster at Newcastle. Collapse of a Mine. Fourteen Men Entombed. Rescue Parties Ready. [Bv Telegraph.] Newcastle
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused this morning by the receipt of meagre news that a terrible disaster bad occurred at the Dudley colliery. Additional particulars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelong. Monday. Boiler Explosion at Gibraltar Mine
The boiler on the battery engines at the Gibralter Consolidated Gold Mine works burst this morning and did considerable damage to the buildings at the chlorination…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at an Adelong Mine. Explosion of a Boiler. Miraculous Escape of Three Men
At Adelong this morning the boiler of one of the battery engines at the Gibraltar Consolidated Gold Mine works burst, and did considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Disaster in Spain. Seventy Men Killed by an Explosion. London
Telegrams received from Madrid report that a terrible explosion has occurred in the Isabella Mine at Cordova, 70 of the miners being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic. New South Wales. Colliery Explosion Near Newcastle. Fourteen Men Entombed. No Hope of Their Rescue. the Main Shaft Wrecked. Machinery Demolished by the Explosion. a Rescue Party at Work. Sydney, Monday Night
Shortly after the morning shift had gone below to-day at the Dudley. Colliery at Charlestown, about 8 miles south of Newcastle, a terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Colliery Disaster
In connection with the colliery disaster, the exploring party of ton last night recovered the body of J. Dorrity two hundred yards from the bottom of the pit, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Colliery Disabter
THE terrible catastrophe which has occurred at the Dudley Colliery in the Newcastle district, whereby fifteen lives have been lost, will cause a deep feeling of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Colliery Disaster. 15 Lives Lost. Heartrending Scenes
FIFTEEN lives were lost in the calamity at the Dudley colliery. The bodies of three victims, Thos. Dorrity, John Benson, and Wm, Humphreys, have been recovered, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Coal Supply Frauds. the Admiral Dismissed.—120 Arrests. London, Tuesday Night
Reports from Odessa, the gr[?] Russian port in the Black Sea, sta[?] that 120 arrests have been made[?] persons alleged to be implicated [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic. New South Wales. Newcastle Colliery Disaster. Work of Exploring Parties. the Men in Danger of Their Lives. Discovery of One Body. Buried Under a Fall of Earth. Sydney, Wednesday Night
The exploring party in tHe Dudley mine, near Newcastle, where the disastrous explosion occurred on Monday, detected early this morning a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Accident at the Gibraltar Mine
WE learn from our Adelong correspondent that a serious boiler explosion occurred at the Gibraltar mine at 2 a.m. on Monday. It appears that at…
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