Brenton
Mine Disaster at Mount Mulligan
May 24th 2007 06:48
There are moments that make you pause. Everyone remembers the Beaconsfield Mine Collapse. However, this disaster has nothing on the enormity of the events of Mount Mulligan.
Mount Mulligan had a strong focus on mining coal, a great source of employment from 1910. It continued to prosper until a mining disaster in 1923. One massive underground coal dust explosion and it was over. Cable drums blown 15 metres from their foundations. No one trapped, waiting for help. No rescue effort. All miners were dead.
Seventy Five lives lost.
Every single Miner in the town was killed on the same day. One big explosion.
They were all buried in the same cemetary. Seventy Fives Lives. Four and a bit football teams. Nineteen more people than were killed in the London bombing attacks. A massive toll.
Today, Mount Mulligan is little more than a ghost town.
Mount Mulligan had a strong focus on mining coal, a great source of employment from 1910. It continued to prosper until a mining disaster in 1923. One massive underground coal dust explosion and it was over. Cable drums blown 15 metres from their foundations. No one trapped, waiting for help. No rescue effort. All miners were dead.
Seventy Five lives lost.
Every single Miner in the town was killed on the same day. One big explosion.
They were all buried in the same cemetary. Seventy Fives Lives. Four and a bit football teams. Nineteen more people than were killed in the London bombing attacks. A massive toll.
Today, Mount Mulligan is little more than a ghost town.
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