Other miners arrived within a few months.

More union miners were arriving from surrounding communities, and a showdown was inevitable.

On November 21, 1927, five hundred miners, some accompanied by their wives and children, arrived at the north gate just before dawn.

By the time the miners arrived at 11.30, there was nothing urgent to discuss with them.

So many new miners had arrived in town that business was very good.

When the other miners who had taken the day off arrived at the mine, they were not allowed in.

The bushrangers quickly left when miners with guns arrived from the town.

In the 1850s, miners arrived from the south seeking gold, and soon outnumbered the fur trappers.

By August 1891 more than 1000 miners had arrived, and the number soon reached 1500.

The joy of the rescuers rose as each new miner arrived.