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JAP MINERS SUFFOCATED
TOKIO, October 6
Fourteen Japanese coalminers died of suffocation after a fire burned down into a pit at Rumoe, Hokkaido. The fire started when a compressor at the pit entrance overheated, setting light to natural gasses from the shaft.
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Grey River Argus, 8 October 1949, Page 5
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