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CESSNOCK, Saturday.--Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is on fire, and dense black smoke, issuing from fissures caused by recent rain, lies over the town. As flames leap high from the subsidences, teams of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Saturday.—A heavy pall of smoke is blanketing the town as gangs of volunteers fight the rapidly spreading fire in Cessnock No. 2 colliery. An explosion near the tunnel this morning blew two men about…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Sat.--Volunteers fought day and night yesterday to check the fire creeping through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOCK, Saturday.—Cessnock is covered tonight by a billowing pall of acrid, soot-laden smoke, through which flames intermittently roar 50 feet into the air…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →GANGS of volunteers battled all yesterday to quell the fire in the disused Cessnock No. 2 colliery, which is sending up thick clouds of black smoke and flames…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOP: Smoke from the fire at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery hangs over pithead buildings, in the left middle distance is the original blowout, shown seated, and in the centre foreground, the second blowout, also sealed. The fire has broken out in a third place. LOWER LEFT: Conferring on methods of attempting to save the mine are,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CESSNOCK, Monday.--Aerial bombing of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is regarded as the only way to prevent the pit from smouldering for weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smoke belching from the blazing crater at the discused Cessnock No. 2 Colliery yesterday. Volunteers battled during the week-end to quell the fire, which is still burning. (Other pictures are on Page 3.)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Monday.--Aerial bombing of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery is regarded as the only way to prevent the pit from smouldering for weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GAPING CRATER at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, where fire is raging. Men swarm around the lip of the cave-in and prepare to blast the sides in to seal the fire. TWIN GIRLS, Louise and Ann Sykes, one year old, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KALGOORLIE, Monday.--Burned remains, believed to be the body of Richard Thomas, about 75, were found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The disused section of Cessnock No. 2 colliery will probably be bombed from the air to quell underground fires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.A.F. bombers may be used to extinguish the fire which broke out in the old workings of Cessnock No. 2 Colliery on Friday and is still burning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Monday.-- Soviet U.S. friction has obliged President Truman to reappoint Mr. Myron Taylor as his personal representative at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON,Monday.--Soviet U.S. friction has obliged President Truman to reappoint Mr. Myron Taylor as his personal representative at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CESSNOCK, Monday.-- A senior R.A.A.F. officer today made a thorough inspection of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery area, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOGK, Monday.-- A senior R.A.A.F. officer today made a thorough inspection of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery area, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOCK, Monday.-- A senior R.A.A.F. officer today mode a thorough inspection of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery area,and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOCK, Monday.-- A senior R.A.A.F. officer today made a thorough inspection of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery area, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOCK, Monday.-- A senior R.A.A.F. officer today made a thorough inspection of the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery area, and on…
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