SALT MINE DISASTER
EIGHTY MEN TRAPPED. ALL HOPE ABANDONED MUNICH. May 7. Though many escaped, eighty miner were trapped when a short circuit, du< to the collapse of a pit prop cutting a high tension cable, fired the mail shaft of the salt mine at Bueggingeri The thick smoke precluded rescues Hope has been abandoned and the mini tea led.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 7
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