MINE ACCIDENT.
i • CAGE FALLS DOWN A SHAFT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. !, (Eec. July 20, 5.35 p.m.) ■ Sydney, July 20., A cage- containing sixteen men fell thirty feet down tho shaft of tho Metropolitan Company's colliery at Helensburgh, 28 miles south, of Sydney. Nono of the men were killed, but thirteen were injured, and three of them are in the hospital in a serious condition. A FORTUNATE ESCAPE. (Roc. July 20, 0.15 p.m.) Sydney, July 20. The Metropolitan. shaft is 1300 feet deep, and the cage was within twenty feet of tho bittom, when a hitch occurred in the winding gear. , The cage, weighing over two lons, shot down with great rapidity, but the safety catch prevented it from striking tho gi'ound with full forcc,. otherwise its 1 fixteen occupants would prbbably have been killed.. All the men were, thrown out with much force, and two of .them had , each. a leg broken, while a third had a lmea fractured, and was sent to tho hospital. Ten others are suffering from slightMujuries to their limbs and from shock. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 874, 21 July 1910, Page 5
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177MINE ACCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 874, 21 July 1910, Page 5
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