TIN MINE TRAGEDY.
FORTY DEATHS SUPPOSED
UNRELIABLE APPOINTMENTS
(Received >8 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21. The entire workings of the Levant tin mine extend under the Atlantic. An accident occurred there whereby forty men are believed to have been killed, owing to the collapse of the winding engine, due to the breaking of iron couplings supporting a vertical beam down the shaft, and an antiquated form of elevator known as a "man engine." Small platforms project from the beam at intervals of twelve feet, corresponding to platforms placed on the side of the shaft. With an upward or downward movement the beam enables the miners to ascend or descend by twelve-foot stages. The collapse occurred when the miners had finished their shift and were returning to the surface. Thus many were thrown headlong to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 1200 feet.
A number are still entombed, and the moans of the injured can -be heard at the surface.
Nine bodies have been recovered —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 23 October 1919, Page 1
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