Coalmine tragedy
Rescue-workers have found the bodies of three coalminers killed in the cave-in that injured two other miners and the mine supervisor at Ashers Fork, Kentucky, yesterday. The cave-in was caused by a mudseam—a crack in the rock ceiling of the 37in-high, mine tunnel, widened by mud. The ceiling collapsed about 150 feet from the opening of the mine and about eight feet from the mine face, where coal is cut from the seams.— Ashers Fork, July 18.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32663, 20 July 1971, Page 13
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