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Alabama Mine Disaster

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
February
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Birsüngham, Feb. -■". - A (b-e oecurred in ftock slope, of the Tont. O Aal, ron and Railroad conipany's mines at Pratt City, that re3ulteil in the doath of John Patton and Louis i-rewns, two minors, and thfi inore or less serious injury of cighteen orliers. Twrnty minors, al) conviots, were in Koek slope near the air shaft, when they detected iho sitn-ll of smoke, and ghortly af terward au immense votóme of It came whirliug toward them from the engino room. I)riv,:i by the smoke the twenty men liurriej to tha air ehaf tand there huddled together to keep from suffocatlnK' John Patton and Ijouís Stevens finally left the crowd at the air sliaft and tried to get to the eago sliaft. They ne'ver reaclied it, but Were afterwards found dead near the engine room. One of the men had his head beaton alniost into a pulp, indicatinfi that he had tried to kill himself rathor than siiffoèabe to doath. In three hours the f i re was quenched and the e.ighteen men at tlu; air shaft wen; urought up in a more or less serious condition irom suffocatión. While the fire was raging twenty-three mules in the stable in the mines feit the sinoke and tried to (jsuape, and toreabout, kicking each oüher to deuth. The usules, wortli SÜjiKJO, were all suffooatod or killed by one another's kicks. The injured miners will all recover.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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