On 16 December 1929 , New South Wales Police drew Motion their revolvers and shot Use_firearm into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales town of Rothbury in Australia , killing Killing a 29-year-old miner , Norman Brown , and injuring Bodily_harm approximately forty-five miners .

One miner , Norman Brown , received Receiving a fatal Killing wound from a ricocheting bullet .

The youngest miner was 15-year-old Joseph Cummings , who risked Risk his life , dodging bullets as he ran Self_motion for the doctor , in a futile effort to help Assistance save Brown 's life .

In Illinois , 25,207 miners went on strike , while only 610 continued to work through the strike , with the average Illinois miner out of work Employment for 72 days because of the strike .

Each miner was allotted Giving an oxygen pack , but the pack only guaranteed Commitment the miners six hours of oxygen .

After the last trapped miner was winched to the surface , the rescue workers still underground held up Hold a sign before the camera stating `` '' '' ( English : `` Mission accomplished Chile '' '' ) to the estimated more than 1 billion people watching the rescue on live television around the world .

The retrieval of the first miner , Florencio Ávalos , began Process_start on Tuesday , 12 October at 23:55 CLDT , with the rescue capsule reaching the surface 16 minutes later .

In the first incident Attack , area residents attributed Judgment_communication the killing Killing of a miner to a band of Ho-Chunk warriors , and concluded Coming_to_believe that more Ho-Chunk planned Arranging to join Becoming_a_member Black Hawk in his war Hostile_encounter against white settlers .