Tag Archives: De Beers Mine Disaster

12 July 1888, Rescue attempts continue at the De Beers Mine disaster as hundreds of miners escape the underground fire. Pictured is the GM of De Beers at the time of the disaster, Gardner Williams, and the memorial at Gladstone ...

Three men killed and four wounded in a shoot-out that starts at Market square and ends at the railway station. The perpetrator is mortally wounded.