ACCIDENT IN A COPPER MINE
♦ MADRID, January 16. A thousand men have been thrown idle at the Rio Tinto copper mines. The substitution of stone pillars for wooden props caused cracks in the ground, in some instances a yard wide, and the subsidence led to the collapse of many houses in the course of construction.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 26
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55ACCIDENT IN A COPPER MINE Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 26
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