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July 12, 1923
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The Victoria Advocate
, July 12, 1923
Five men were killed and 15 injured when a train of cars ran wild down the slope of the No. 1 ore mine of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. The men were riding the cars when the couplings parted 800 feet from the bottom of the slope.
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