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HORRIBLE MINING ACCIDENT
A YOUNG MAN DECAPITATED.
BENDIGO, Monday
A shocking occurrence took place this evening at the Great Northern mine, at Eaglehawk. The victim was a young miner named Robert Degreaves, whose head was taken off through the fall of a bucket, as completely and suddenly as if he had been guillotined. Degreaves and another miner named Tunics Al tunis WHO it work in the ssmze boloss the I "SOfl crosscut und ubotit i o eloel vseie sending up mullen I J li
ssmze is hetsvciii 70ft and SOfl deep V full buikct bad boen sent away mid Di gum« ssns placing the tmpls bin I ti in Hit bottom of the vtuizi pit]) nut II S to ii Hine, it when Hu wmih loit biol c mid the full bullet which bul then iihttntlc I between 18ft nul JOH t line donn with t
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Degicnvcs was «looping iscr the enipts bud tt ssitli his lund oser the edge, when the falling but let si nu It linn md lie wa« tomplittls tlecipil ited the sesoied head filling into the hue! et and Hie boil} to tho floor of the wm His bonni stricken mato vues standing onls it few feet ass as
Hie both was pi iccr* in a ba< lashed to the loiio and liiised io the pint
J ho deiiused via« ti singlt mun 24 venís of agc and hstd with his mielo Mr P S AA'ilbams ti piominent nitmbti of the Almeis Assonntion His ielatives reside nt I cbucn "Hie winch lope had been ex aniincd onlv the piiuous shift by Hit underground 'boss,' Mi Richilld Stevens, who ascended the ssmze ou ii full btitkct