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MINE TRAIN SMASHES TO PIECES 20 KILLED AND 38 INJURED DISASTER IN NOVA SCOTIA It! P A.-Bv Eleclnc TcUgraph Coovriirbl (Received 7th December. 1.0 p.m.) SYDNEY (Nova Scotia). 6th Dec. Twenty men were killed and thirty-eight injured when a min** train <■ irrying 250 men broke the cable and plunged a mile down steep tracks and was smashed to pieces deep in the Princess colliery. The train was composed of 26 boxlike cars controlled from the surface by a cable which parted when the train was less than half-way down. The cars careered at sixty miles an hour. Some men jumped, some were crushed against jagged walls, and some under the wheels. Most of the men stayed aboard as the train plunged a mile after the cable broke. Finally it jumped the tracks and piled up in a heap. SURVIVOR’S STORY Cardell Nicholson, a survivor, could only repeat: “It was awful. There was no warning jolt when the cable broke, and suddenly the train was roaring down the tracks at sixty miles an hour. A man in front of me stood up and the jagged mine roof cut off his head. Another jumped, hit a wall and was thrown back under the wheels and killed.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 7 December 1938, Page 7
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