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4 Miners Die in Explosion Hammond Times, Indiana November 20, 1936 The dead are:
Officials of the Bates Coal Mining Company, where the accident occurred, said only five men were in the mine at the time of the explosion. A crew of 100 men was to enter the mine within an hour or so however. The explosion occurred, according to the mine officials, when a cutting machine pierced a gas pocket in the company's Mine No. 1. |
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