ANOTHER MINING DISASTER.
LOSS OF 200 LIVES.
[PXR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received July sth. 12-30 p.m. Paris, July 4. A terrible catastrophe occurred in the mining district of St. Etienne by au explosion of fire-damp in a colliery. Two hundred miners have been killed. Received July sth, 8 p.m. Paris, July 4. None of the victims of the terrible calamity at the St. Etienne colliery have been rescued. President Carnot is taking measures for the relief of the widows and families of the dead, whose number is stated to be 200.
St. Etienne is a town with a population of more than 111,000, and is situated in the department of the Loire, on the banks of the Furens, about thirty-two miles from Lyons. Ie is famous for its cutlery, firearms, and other kinds of hardware, besides manufactories of ribbons and other silk goods. It is surrounded by coal mines, and is even built on coal deposits, so that some galleries are driven beneath the streets. During the sway of Napoleon, fire-arms were turned out at the rate of from 60,000 to 100,000 per annum.
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7355, 6 July 1889, Page 5
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