MINING FATALITY.
A CAGE FALLS SEVEN HUNDRED FEET.
SEVENTEEN MINERS KILLED
Received September 22, 4.4G p.m. NEW YORK, September 21. A mining fatality is reported from Michigan. A cage containing seventeen miners was being hauled up the shaft of the mine attached to Messrs Jones and McLaughlin's steel-works., in Michigan, when through some gear giving way it fell seven hundred feet to the bottom.
The occupants of the cage were killed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8541, 23 September 1907, Page 5
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71MINING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8541, 23 September 1907, Page 5
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