SEVEN NATIVES KILLED
CRUSHED BY FALLING ROCK MINE SHAFI’ CAGE STRUCK Received Doc. 24, 5.5 p.m. JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 24.. Eighty natives were travelling down a shaft on the Rendfontein estates 'in the top of a compartment cage and when 4000 feet down a rock, weighing half a ton, dislodged from, the wall of the shaft, fell a thousand ■ feet to the roof of the cage, denting, the steel a foot deep, fatally fractur-' 1 ing the skulls of seven of the occ-u-; pants and injuring two others.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 7
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