ACCIDENT AT MINE.
CAGE FALLS 1600 FEET. 28 NATIVES KILLED. EUROPEAN’S BODY MUTILATED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. —Copyright. (Received March 11, 9.35 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 10. A cage, when descending the Crown mine, ran away and fell IGOO feet. Twenty-eight natives were killed. The rope violently swayed and wrenched open the door of the ascending cage. A European was pitched out, and his mutilated body was found at the bottom of the shaft. The accident is inexplicable.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 7
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