Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet in the bowels of the earth, sacrifice … and the flame was racing towards the point of explosion 1 . On the 4th August, again at the Market Square, a much … were sent underground, and no further trouble occurred. 5,000 natives at the Main compound, City Deep, were involved …