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Page 204
... rock was so extensive and the danger of another fall was so great that they did not recover the third lifeless body until after daybreak . At the in- quest a jury of miners found that the company had taken all reasonable precautions to ...
... rock was so extensive and the danger of another fall was so great that they did not recover the third lifeless body until after daybreak . At the in- quest a jury of miners found that the company had taken all reasonable precautions to ...
Page 262
... rock was only a few feet wide . At 2.10 a.m. on 26 May 1928 the fuses were lit for the last firing , and when the carbide lamps of the opposite miners gleamed across the pile of shattered rock there was high excitement . By mid ...
... rock was only a few feet wide . At 2.10 a.m. on 26 May 1928 the fuses were lit for the last firing , and when the carbide lamps of the opposite miners gleamed across the pile of shattered rock there was high excitement . By mid ...
Page 286
... rock . The mouth of the tunnel which produced the silver bonanza is still visible , and the adjacent cutting where the little mill stamped for gold is a graveyard of overturned ore trucks . The lowest tunnel where the men walked to the ...
... rock . The mouth of the tunnel which produced the silver bonanza is still visible , and the adjacent cutting where the little mill stamped for gold is a graveyard of overturned ore trucks . The lowest tunnel where the men walked to the ...
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