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City of Mexico, Jan. 4.- A terrible disaster has occurred in the Santa Gertrusi mine at Pachuca, one of the most famous silver mines in the country. From some cause not known fire broke out in one of the levéis of the old southern workings Thursday, shutting off the exit of thirteen Mexican miners. Miners on the outside went to work to try to put oat the flre and save the men. One Englishman, Ned Richards, an experienced miner, went down in charge of the rescue operations, hut perished from suffocation. All the Mexicans (lied from the same cause or from bui-ning. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The affair caused the greatest excitement, as it is one of the worst mining disasters in the history of Pachuca.
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