HOUSES COLLAPSE IN RIO TINTO.
Town over great mines Menaced with Ruin. Madrid, January 15. Rio Tinto, the little town which forms the social centre of the great copper mines of the same name in Andalusia, is seriously threatened with'destruction. It has been undermined in every direction by. the long . galleries of the mines, and many 'of these are tumbling in. Enormous cracks are appearing in the streets of the town, and hundreds of houses are in dangerous positions. Six houses actually crumbled into ruins oil Sunday last. “ The danger especially threatens nine streets, and the 400 families who lived in these streets have been removed to the neighbouring villages. Their homes are now deserted. In consequence of the collapse of a number of the galleries in the mines, a large part of the works will have to be stopped, and it is probable that over 3000 employees will be rendered workless. The capital of the Rio Tinto Company, which owns the mines, is 00 > 000 -
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 388, 12 March 1908, Page 4
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166HOUSES COLLAPSE IN RIO TINTO. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 388, 12 March 1908, Page 4
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