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FAMOUS CROWN MINES BURNING FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS Outbreak Starts Between Shifts Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.30 a.m.) Cape Town, June 22. The No. 12 shaft in the Crown Mines, which is heavily timbered, has been a blazing inferno for the paEt eighteen hours. The fire- was discovered by the night shift of eighty men who, traversing the tunnels, encounrered smoke. They l retreated and reached the surface safely just as a volume of poisonous gat’ swept up. Fortunately the outbreak started between ?hif;s and no one was injured.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 23 June 1937, Page 5
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89BLAZING INFERNO Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 23 June 1937, Page 5
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