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Sidelights on Mine Disaster, June 4, 1925

Sidelights on Mine Disaster

During the exciting times at the Carolina Coal Company’s mine when body after body was bring brought to the surface some only noticed a young woman who had been standing by the mouth of the mine for some time. She was sad and sorrowful and showed all the sings of mortal anguish. Very soon it was learned she was the young wife of one of the miners, she having been married less than a month. She had been standing by for six solid hours and remained thusly absorbed in only the things taking place in the bowels of the earth for three other hours when the body of her young husband was brought out a mangled mess of flesh.

Three mules were killed along with the men who were killed. One of them had been in the mine, we ware told, four years, never having been outside the mine in all that time. The other two had been in the mine for several months.

From the front page of the Moore County News, Carthage, N.C., Thursday, June 4, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92074101/1925-06-04/ed-1/seq-1/

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