SHAFT TRAGEDY.
WORKERS ENTOMBED. (BT CABLE—PBEBS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHT.) (AUBTRALIAK AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOK.) LONDON. January 7. Six men were entombed 80 feet below the Thames at Deptford, where a shaft was being sunk for compressed air in connexion with a new electricity generating station. Water rushed in and cut off the workers, two of whom were rescued. Hope has been abandoned of saving the others.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 9
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64SHAFT TRAGEDY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 9
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