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31 July - 1902 - Henry MacCabe & Our Two Worst Mining Disasters
REPEAT: Australia suffered what is still our worst industrial disaster when an explosion ripped through the Mount Kembla mine on 31 July 1902. Strikingly, lead rescuer Henry MacCabe had 15 years earlier been acclaimed a...
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31 July - 1902 - Henry MacCabe & Our Two Worst Mining Disasters is an episode from Australia On This Day. REPEAT: Australia suffered what is still our worst industrial disaster when an explosion ripped through the Mount Kembla mine on 31 Ju...
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Published Jul 30, 2021, 13:22 long, audio available.
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REPEAT: Australia suffered what is still our worst industrial disaster when an explosion ripped through the Mount Kembla mine on 31 July 1902. Strikingly, lead rescuer Henry MacCabe had 15 years earlier been acclaimed a hero of the 1887 Mount Keira explosion, which was our previous worst industrial catastrophe. Yet Henry's legacy isn't quite black and white. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Published Jul 30, 2021 and 13:22 long