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Show IIAI.7 IM ia . IIE CAGE FALLS BOCRUM. Prussia. Aug. It. A serious Occident te the hoisting machinery at Kruppa Hannsbe! eoal mine caused rumors ru-mors that asaay acraana bad beea killed. Later renorte snow there were no deaths, hut eishteee) miners were seriously end twenty-six others slightly hurt. The maeMniet loot control of the hoisting hoist-ing machinery while a four-story cage, occupied by forty-five men, was descending, descend-ing, aad the aaae dropped tse feet te the bottom of the shaft. Portuneteir. the companion ease ascending was empty through a delay ew the part of the night ehift to leave the mine. Otherwise e far more perk&ue accident must have resulted. |