31 July - 1902 - Henry MacCabe & Our Two Worst Mining Disasters

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Australia On This Day

65 episodes

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What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

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What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

31 July - 1902 - Henry MacCabe & Our Two Worst Mining Disasters

Australia On This Day

13 minutes 22 seconds

4 years ago

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 hero of the 1887 Mount Keira explosion, which was our previous worst industrial catastrophe. Yet Henry's legacy isn't quite black and white.

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