MINE DISASTER
TRAIN WITH 250 MEN DASHES INTO MINE FOLLOWING ON CABLE BREAK. TWENTY KILLED AND 38 INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received' This Day, 1.0 p.m.) SYDNEY (Nova Scotia f, December 6. Twenty men were killed and 38 inpured when a mine train carrying 250 men broke its cable, plunged a mile, down steep tracks and smashed to pieces deep in the Princess Colliery. The train was composed of 26 boxlike cars, controlled from the surface by a cable. This parted when the train was less than half-way down. The cars careered at sixty miles an hour. Some of the men jumped. Some were crushed against'the jagged walls and some under the wheels.' Most of the men stayed aooard as the train plunged a mile after the cable broke. Finally it jumped the tracks and piled up in a heap. Cardell Nicholson, a survivor, could only repeat: “It was awful. There was no warning jolt when the cable broke. Suddenly the train was roaring down the tracks at sixty miles an hour. A man in front of me stood up and the jagged mine roof cut off his head. Another jumped, hit the wall, and was thrown back under the wheels and killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1938, Page 8
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203MINE DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1938, Page 8
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