GREAT ROCK SLIDE.
FURTHER MOUNTAIN DISASTER
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Ottawa, April 30, The disaster at Frank was due to a rook slide carrying the top of 'Turtle Mountain on to tho viilago below. The dust was mistaken for volcanic smoko.
Of tho seventeen miners entombed two were suffocated. Tho rest escaped through the debris uninjured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 880, 2 May 1903, Page 2
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