TRAGEDY IN ASBESTOS MINE
SEVEN MEN DEAD IN SLIDE SOLE SURVIVOR'S STORY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright QUEBEC, December 8. (Received December 9, at 13.30 p.m.) A message from the Thetford mines, Quebec, states that seven miners were buried alive by a slide following a dynamite blast in the 801 l Asbestos Mine. Two hours later rescue crews found that there were all dead. All were married men and 34 children are fatherless. Arthur Hudson, the lone survivor, described the sound ns being like a hurricane. He, threw himself on the floor of a railway car and a moment later a huge mass of asbestos hurled the car to safety and engulfed the remainder of the men.
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Evening Star, Issue 23136, 9 December 1938, Page 9
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