FIRE IN MINE
NIGHT SHIFT'S LUCKY ESCAPE RAGE WITH POISONOUS GAS Press Assoc . u; -By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, June 22. (Received Juno 23, at 10 a.m.) No. 12 shaft in the Crown Mines, which is heavily timbered, has been a blazing inferno for the past 18 hours. The fire was discovered by a night shift of 80 men who were traversing the tunnels. When they encountered smoke they retreated and reached the surface safely before a huge volume of poisonous gas swept up. Fortunately the outbreak started between shifts.
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Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 8
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89FIRE IN MINE Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 8
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