FALL OF STONE IN A MINE
SEVEN MEN IMPRISONED, BUT RELEASED LATER.
(By Telegraph—Press 'A ssociation.) WESTPORT, Lasfr Night.
The stone roof.; of" tbx» l Westport\ Coal Company's Cascade mine fell: fbr a distance . of twenty, yards, blocking the outlet'/ v ; w ' Richard Baker, who was two or three yards > away from the beginning of 'the fall, saw it coming' and leaped into a place oi saifeiy,' but* was'; surrounded by a great mass- of rocks. •'(Seven other men 'were also shttfc'in, but" away from the immediate califs \ of danger. Rescue parties got .V..v| workvigorously, and managed, aft-Br"[ two and a half hours' strenuous laV-'-j our; to release the inrp'iwwed men. j Stone of them were injured; '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10543, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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117FALL OF STONE IN A MINE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10543, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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