MINE TRAGEDY
LIFT GAGE SLIPS CABLE FOUR MEN KILLED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, April 20. (Received April 21, at 2 p.m.) A message from Beardmore (Ontario) states that four miners were killed and three were injured when the lift cage in the Northern Empire gold mine, bringing up the night shift, slipped its cable, plunged 800 ft, and wedged itself in the shaft, necessitating rescue bysevering the cage top with the aid of acetylene torches.
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Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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76MINE TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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