DROP TO DEATH.
DISASTER IN A MINE.
THIRTY MEN KILLED.
CAGE FALLS 1000 FEET.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, Dec. 18.
A terrible mine disaster occurred at the Randfonteiir Estates. A edge containing a white man and thirty natives was descending the south vertical shaft-, 4750 feet deep, when the driver was horrified to find the strain suddenly cease, the cage having dropped 1000 feet and crumpled into a mass of twisted wreckage.
Rescuers immediately descended and discovered human remains wedged in the timbers, while at the bottom of the shaft only the top of-the battered cage could be seen emerging from the water. Baling had to be resorted to, but so tai no bodies have been recovered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 9
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