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Pabst Mine disaster...
Pabst Mine disaster...
Item # 565443
September 25, 1926
THE OMAHA MORNING BEE, Nebraska, September 25, 1926
* Pabst Mine Disaster (1st report)
* Ironwood, Michigan
This 16 page newspaper has one column headlines on the back page (pg. 16): "11 Miners Buried Alive by Cave-in; Fear Three Killed" "Tons of Boulders Tear Down 2,600-Foot Shaft in Ironwood, Mich.; Rush Rescue Work"
Is a 1st report on the Pabst Mine disaster in Ironwood, Michigan.
Other news of the day. Light browning with little margin wear, otherwise good.
wikipedia notes: The Pabst Mine Disaster was an incident that occurred on September 24, 1926 at the Pabst Iron Mine in Ironwood, Michigan, when a mine shaft containing 46 iron ore miners unexpectedly collapsed. 3 miners were killed in the initial collapse, while 43 survivors were left trapped for 129 hours. The subsequent rescue of the trapped miners, with the last miner removed from the rubble at 11:22 p.m on the 5th day, made national headlines in the United States.
On September 24, 1926, 43 men were inside the mine, and three electricians began traveling down the shaft in the elevator. Sources disagree whether it was a failure of the elevator or the result of falling rock, but in either case the elevator fell down the shaft, killing its three occupants. A rock fall then sealed the shaft above the eighth level of the mine, trapping 40 miners there, 2 on the 13th, and one more on the 18th.
The miners, now trapped and unsure when and if help would arrive, attempted to ration the remaining food from their lunches. However, the food ran out before the second day, and the only nourishment they had left was tea they made from birch bark scraped from the wooden planks lining the walls of the mine and heated with the miners' carbide lamps.
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