MINING TRAGEDY
CAGE FALLS 800 FEET FOUR MEN KILLED IN CANADA THREE OTHERS INJURED (Recd This Day, 12.55 p.m.) VANCOUVER, April 20. A message from Beardmore, Ontario, states that four miners were killed and three injured when a lift cage at the Northern Empire Gold Mine, bringing up the' night shift, slipped from the cable, plunged 800 feet and wedged itself in the shaft, necessitating a rescue by severing the cage top with the aid of acetylene torches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 8
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