TWO KILLED TWENTY-ONE INJURED IN MINE
■CAGE CRASHES INTO PLATFORM.
I SUDDEN STOP CAUSES SERIOUS HURT. MENS SPINES FRACTURED. (Received 9.35 a.m.) CAPETOWN* Dec. 27. Two miners were killed and twentyone injured in an overwinding accident at the Robinson Deep to-day, when a cage crashed into a platform at th© top of the headgear whore a safety device held it until help came. The force of the sudden stop caused, the injuries. Two Europeans are in a critical condition with fractured "spines.—Australian P.A, '
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 9, 28 December 1928, Page 5
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