RAND MINE TRAGEDY
TWELVE MEN KILLED. . [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received. December 20, 10.30 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, December 19., Two Europeans and ten natives, working on a steel platform at the top of the new shaft at the Crown mines, were,killed when a platform weighing eight tons, struck the side of the shaft, when being moved. On© chain snapped, and the sudden strain caused other chains to break. The platform fell three thousand feet, into forty feet of water.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 7
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