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George Alexander BAILIE
Age at Death62
Date Of Death24 September 1934 : Reg 19/1934 East Murchison - Died at Wiluna Hospital, WA
Place Of BirthSerpentine, Victoria
OccupationMiner/Magazine Attendant
Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette, Friday 5 October 1934, page 1
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie, WA - photo Paul Doust
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie, WA
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Wiluna GM, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Killed in an explosion in the capping room at the Wiluna GM.
Place Of Burial
Wiluna Cemetery, Wiluna, Western Australia : Roman Catholic
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MSW
Single
District
Wiluna
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
James BAILIE (1837-1918)
Mother
Margaret COLLINS (1850-1925)
Other Information
Les Braun was awarded a Royal Humane Society medal for rescuing Bailie from the building while detonators were exploding.
Geraldton Guardian and Express Saturday 29th September 1934
ACCIDENT AT WILUNA
FATAL EXPLOSION
MINE WORKER KILLED
Another Wiluna employee, George Bailie, died at the Wiluna Hospital on Monday following injuries he received as a result of an explosion.
Bailie, who was a single man, aged 62 years, was employed as a magazine attendant, and early on the morning of September 18th, was engaged in capping fuses. It appears that he lit a fuse with the intention of testing it, but immediately on doing so there was a violent explosion, which badly wrecked the room. Bailie was severely injured.
A report from Wiluna concerning the tragic affair disclosed that Bailie, contrary to his usual custom had carried out the test of the fuse inside the capping room instead of outside, and it was thought that the explosion was caused either by a spark from the match or the fuse.
There were about 100 detonators in the room and an inspection of the room afterward disclosed that the detonators had apparently all exploded.
