QUEBEC MINERS
KILLED B|Y LAND SLIDE. QUEBEC, December A message from the Thetford mines Quebec, states that seven miners were buried alive by a slide, following a dynamite ”51ast, in the Bell Asbestos mine. Two hou,rs later rescue crews found them all dead. All were married men, and 34 children are fatherless. Arthur Hudson, the lone survivor described the sound as being like a hurricane. He threw himself on the floor of a railway car. A moment later, a huge mass of asbestos hurled the car to safety, but engulfed the remainder of the men. t
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Grey River Argus, 10 December 1938, Page 10
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96QUEBEC MINERS Grey River Argus, 10 December 1938, Page 10
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