LIGHTNING CAUSES EXPLOSION IN MINE
(Received 14, 8.45 a.m.) JOHANNESBUEG, Dec. 13. Lightning struclc the bell wire and the poppet head of the central shaft at a Rand mine and detoiiated 11 dynamite charges 4000 feet below. The explosion L-ied eight native miners and injured four, oue of whom had saved Ihe European superintendent, Mr J. Pretorius, by pushing hira aside after the. first, explosio.n,.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 5
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