SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
BY FALL OF STONE. EIGHT MEN IMPRISONED. [)IY TKl.WißAl'll. I'RI'.SS ASSOCIATION.} Westport, Friday. A quantity of ntonc on the roof of the Westport Coal Co's. Cascade mine fell for a distance of 20 yards, blocking the outlet. Richard Baker, who was two or three yards away from the beginning of the fall, saw it coming, and leaped into a place of safety, but was surrounded by a great mass of Seven other men were also shut in, but away from the immediate cause of danger. A rescue party got to work vigorously, and managed, after two and a half hours' strenuous labour, to release the imprisoned men. None of them wero injured.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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114SINGULAR ACCIDENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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