Jack Kingston - Springhill Mine Explosion (3:01)
On November 1, 1956 disaster struck the Dominion Coal Company's Springhill, Nova Scotia mine when a powerline ignited some coal dust 5,500 feet below the ground, trapping over 100 miners in the deep tunnels below the Earth's surface. Eighty-eight of the trapped miners were eventually rescued, but 39 workers died in the tragedy. Google map
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