The Bulli Colliery Explosion.

Very rare engraved view of the explosion at the Old Bulli Colliery, Bulli at 2.30pm on 23 March 1887. It was one of the worst disasters in Australian mining history, 81 miners were killed.

Inset titles;
1. General View of the Colliery.
2. Mouth of the Tunnel: Bringing out the Dead.
3. Davy Map.
4. Searching for the Bodies.
5. The Work of Identification in the Blacksmith’s Shop

From the original edition of The Australasian (Supplement)