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Page 207
... stope . Two men , Cox and Gadd , fixed hoses to the compressed air pipes and for half an hour tried to repel the smoke . At noon Cox realized the peril and led fifty - seven men through the darkness to the steel house , a wooden ...
... stope . Two men , Cox and Gadd , fixed hoses to the compressed air pipes and for half an hour tried to repel the smoke . At noon Cox realized the peril and led fifty - seven men through the darkness to the steel house , a wooden ...
Page 213
... stope . Send food and candles at once . No time to lose . J. Ryan . Food , beef tea , tobacco , blankets , and candles were lowered down the shaft . Outside the mine there was great excitement when the note was read to the waiting crowd ...
... stope . Send food and candles at once . No time to lose . J. Ryan . Food , beef tea , tobacco , blankets , and candles were lowered down the shaft . Outside the mine there was great excitement when the note was read to the waiting crowd ...
Page 214
... stope on the day of the fire . They climbed a ladder into the overhead stope , and by candle light saw seven men clinging stiffly to the air vent of a rock drill . The searchers moved forward and then turned silently away . " " At dusk ...
... stope on the day of the fire . They climbed a ladder into the overhead stope , and by candle light saw seven men clinging stiffly to the air vent of a rock drill . The searchers moved forward and then turned silently away . " " At dusk ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell open cut pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc