TWO MINERS BURIED.
FATALITY AT WAIHI.
Waihi, Dec. 12
Two miners named Ritchie and Woods, engaged underground in the Crown mine, Karangahake, were, owing to a collapse of staging, precipitated down a pass. A rush of quartz accompanied them. Woods was completely buried, and when his body was recovered life was extinct.
Ritchie was buried up to his armpits, and escaped with a slight bruising.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1184, 13 December 1913, Page 2
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65TWO MINERS BURIED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1184, 13 December 1913, Page 2
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