DISASTROUS EXPLOSION IN A MINE.
CAUSED BY LIGHTING A PIPE.
123 LIVES LOST.
By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright.
(Received May 25, 5.11 p.m.)
London, May 24. A collier, lighting his pfye, caused an explosion in the Crow's Nest mine at Fernie, British Columbia. One hundred and twenty-three miners were killed. Fifteen escaped by a shaft leading to another pit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11975, 26 May 1902, Page 5
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