HURLED 1,600 FEET
RUNAWAY CAGE CAUSES MANY DEATHS AFRICAN MINE DISASTER Reed. 10.20 a.m. CAPETOWN, Mon. A cage descending in the Crown mine ran away and fell 1,600 feet. Twenty-eight natives were killed. The rope swayed violently and wrenched open the door of an ascending cage and a European was pitched out. His mutilated body was found at the bottom of the shaft. The accident is inexplicable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 9
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67HURLED 1,600 FEET Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 9
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