CAGE CRASHES DOWN MINE.
'TWENTY-EIGHT NATIVES KILLED EUROPEAN FATALLY FALLS FROM .ASCENDING CAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Asian .—Copyright.) (Received Tlfis Day, 9.35 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 10. A cage which "was descending the Crown mine ran away and fell 160 feet, 358 natives being killed. The ropes •violently swayed, and wrenched open the door of the ascending cage, from -which a European was pitched out, his ranntilated body being found at the ,ibottom of the shaft. The accident is Inexplicable.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 March 1930, Page 5
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