JAPANESE MINE DISASTER
WINDING GEAR BREAKS. SIXTY MINERS KILLED. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.5 a.m.) Tokio, April 15. Sixty miners were killed and 23 injured when the winding gear at the Sumitomo colliery, in the Fukuoke district, broke, the cages crashing 2000 feet to the bottom of the pit.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 5
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