Crushed to Death.
Per Press Association. WAIHI, Dec. 7. This afternoon a sensational mining accident occurred at Karangafaake. Two men named Middleton and McColl, who were engaged in a shalf of the Crown Mine, were killed outright. The men were working in the bottom of the shaft when a truck of quartz from an upper level crashed down upon them. The bodi/es, r.v'hrs: recovered, were terribly crushed and mutilated. It appears a man in on upper level, thinking the cage was in the shaft to receive the loaded truck, .wheeled it into the empty shaft.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 8 December 1903, Page 3
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95Crushed to Death. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 8 December 1903, Page 3
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