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CAGE AND TEE’ MEN ONE KILLED AND SEVEN BADLY HURT. WINDING GEAR FAILS. "By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 23, 0.50 a.m.) PERTH, May 22. ’ Through failure of the winding gear to act at the South Gwalia mine al Leonora a skip with ten men foil to the bottom of a shaft 2000 feet deep. The'cable parted, and cage and men fell on top of Frank, Rooney, assistant surveyor, who was killed. Adams, s surveyor, is riot expected to recover, and six miners are seriously injured.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7447, 23 May 1911, Page 5
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