NUNNERY PIT ACCIDENT
CDNITEB fRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPIEIUIIT.) (reuters teleobam.) • . .LbNDO'N, 29th, December. . .At a-, protracted incjuest on the seven men killed in the" Nunnery pit accident, the evidence was' heard 6t' metallurgical expert? .on the. subject of the vagaries of metals. 35xliaustive tests were carried put on tfie steel, rope vvh'ich broke: A verdict that tjje^. deaths were purely accidental,, arid that blame could be-at-tached to nobody, was returned.
, A train of, 20 or 30 tub's; each containing about four then, was being drawn t rip from the bottom of the Nunnery pit, near Sheffield, when' tlie tope snapped. . The train dashed back at a terrific speed for 'several hundred yards, and piled up at the bottom.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 156, 31 December 1923, Page 7
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117NUNNERY PIT ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 156, 31 December 1923, Page 7
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