Mine Disaster Grim Scenes Life-like Bodies Others Mutilated "News" Special LONDON
THREATENED at every step by deadliest [?] rescue parties to-day managed to penetrate a wall of rock, and to locate 24 of…
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4,154 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 208
Miners Leaders Sow Dissension Defeatists Win on South Coast. General Discontent with Arbitration
At the South Coast miners’ aggre[?]te meeting last week, the official speakers did nothing but raise arguments to prevent us taking action…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Disaster Fifty-two Men Dead Ebrw Vale Explosion
Simultaneous colliery disasters, one in Monmouthshire, Wales, and the other in Nottinghamshire, England, brought tragedy into the homes of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ghastly Scenes Effect of Explosion in Depths of Mine Rescuers' Ordeal London, Thursday Night
Eleven bodies were brought to the surface this morning from the "Black Vein" workings in the Cwm mine at Fbbw Vale (Monmouthshire), the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Money, Mines and Merchandise City Gossip Bank of A'sia Div. Thread Co.'s Finances Bank of Australasia Pays 14 p.c
After adhering for several years to a dividend rate of 13 per cent, per annum, the directors of the Bank of Australasia have increased the ratio…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Trouble Staff Appointments NEWCASTLE
The Miners' Delegate Board yesterday decided to support the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Union in its fight against the Caledonian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Notes
South Lucknow Gold Mining Co., N.L.—Gold return from approximately 4½ tons ore, despatched three weeks ago, ex new lode, S.W. from old shaft,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minister Inspects Colliery Problems in Working Central Aberdare Cessnock
The Minister for Mines, Mr. Baddeley, accompanied by Mr Clark, superintendent of the Caledonian colli[?] Mr. Brown, Government inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WILD and WIDE Gold for Salt
In the early flays of the Gilberton (Q.) diggings, when the teams were longer than usual with the supplies, salt sold for its own weight in gold…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Has Mine Been Closed? Killingworth Position Newcastle
It is being freely stated that Killingworth Colliery has been closed down. The president, Mr. Hoars, said that the local check inspector had been informed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lidsdale Mine Dispute Proposals for Men Lithgow
A conference was held at Lidsdale this morning regarding the dispute over the unequal distribution of skips Messrs. Knight and Menchen…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Finds. Claims Near Perth. Perth
The assistant State mining engineer (Mr. R. C. Wilson) inspected the Parkerville gold find and took samples at the bottom of While's Well on property near Perth. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mine Heroes Cwm Disaster Unfortunate Outburst London, Friday Night
Prior to the inquest on the death of the 52 miners killed in the CWM explosion, the Corner, and owners' and miners' representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOLD -- at the rate of £10 a Second
A CORRESPONDENT of the generation that postdates the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Whaffor! An Old-time Mining Town Joke
THIS is a very old Joke on "John Chinaman," perhaps one of the most ancient in Australia, but, like many old things, it loses nothing of its flavor with age…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →South Coast Mining Board Resolutions Wollongong
Resolutions curried at last meeting of the Southern Miners' District Delegate Board were as follow:-- Moved by the Helensburgh and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Career of a Miner Leader the Facts About Miners' Secretary Cook
A. J. Cook was horn in 1889 at Wookey, in Somersetshire. His father, who was a soldier, was serving abroad at the time, and he was brought up…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Big Night Maroubra Programme Gold Helmet Stratton and Brinck
With 15 races on the programme, the appearance of new riders at the track, and musical Items by the world-famous Commonwealth band during me events, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Death Roll Totals 71 Mine Disasters Bodies Are Mutilated "Black Vein" Shambles London
DEATHS in the great colliery disasters at Cwm (Monmouthshire) and Bilsthorpe (Nottinghamshire) totalled 71, of which 57 were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twelve Bodies Still Missing in Welsh Colliery Disaster London
Twelve bodies are still unrecovered from the Cwm colliery disaster. At the inquest, which was opened and adjourned, the Coroner paid a tribute to…
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