MINER'S NARROW ESCAPE.
EXCITING EXPERIENCE AT WAIHt (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WATTTT, this day. Two miners had a narrow escape from death last evening in the Waihi Company's No. 5 shaft, where the big pump is installed. It appears that the men were engaged at the bottom of the shaft when suddenly a relief valve connection pump blew out, with the result that the next stroke of the pump smashed the water column, a large piece of which fell, but luckily got jammed in the shaft, saving a fall of 700 feet to where the men were working. The rush of water down the shaft aa the result of the valve blowing out completely enveloped the two men, and knocked them about. They, howeer, escaped seriou3 injury, the pump being stopped, and the men conveyed in a cage to the Burface.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1904, Page 5
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140MINER'S NARROW ESCAPE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1904, Page 5
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