Alas it Seems Cruel: The Mount Mulligan Coal Mine Disaster of 1921
- ISBN-10
- 1922109517
- ISBN-13
- 9781922109514
- Category
- Coal mine accidents
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boolarong Press
- Author
- Peter Bell
Description
Peter Bell grew up in Cairns in the 1960s, a few years after the town of Mount Mulligan had been abandoned. He went to school with members of the dispersed community, and he heard stories about the mine disaster that had happened in their grandparent's time.
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