TRAGEDY IN MINE
CAGE DROPS 800 FEET FOUR KILLED IN CANADA OTTAWA, April 20 Four miners killed and three injured when a cage in the Northern Empire gold mine at Beardmore, Ontario, which was bringing up men on night shift, slipped its cable and plunged down tho shaft, a distance of 800 feet. The cage became wedged in tho shaft, necessitating the rescuers severing the cage top with acetylene torches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23019, 22 April 1938, Page 9
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