TRAGEDY IN A MINE.
INDIAN WORKERS PERISH. SUFFOCATION THROUGH FIRE. (Received April 19. 11.25 p.m.) CALCUTTA, April 19. Seventeen Indian labourers perished in a fire in the I.ady Rangi mica mine in the Hazaribagh district of the Bihar and Orissa Province. A forest fire ignited the timbers in the ventilation shaft of the mine and smoke and gas penetn ted to the lower workings suffocating th® victims.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21162, 20 April 1932, Page 9
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