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Illawarra Mercury
  • 7/31/2024
Watch: People gather for the 96 Candles memorial ceremony remembering the miners who died in the 1902 Mount Kembla mine explosion.
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00:00Lonely, the wind sings. Lonely, the bird wings through Boulder Hill. Then all is still in
00:25Windy Gully, deep in the mountainside. Ninety-six miners died. Loud were the cries. Smoke filled
00:43the skies of Windy Gully. Closed down the old pit. Sealed up the mouth of it.

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