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Springhill Coal Mine Disaster Nova Scotia Canada 1956
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This clip describes the November 1, 1956 explosion in the No. 4 mine. Fire and a methane gas explosion hindered rescue efforts so that while 88 miners were rescued, 39 died. This was the second of three major disasters in the Springhill Mines over the years beginning with the Explosion on February 21, 1891 , with a loss of 121 men and boys. The last was the Bump on October 23, 1958 which saw the loss of 75 men. • The Springhill Mining Company began coal mining in Springhill Nova Scotia in 1873. • By the 1880s Springhill had 5 mines in operation. The mines employed many men and young boys. Boys as young as eight years old worked in the mines until an act was passed in1923 prohibiting boys under the age of sixteen from working in the mines. • A total of 424 men and boys lost their lives in the Springhill Mines from 1873 until the final closure in 1970. This is clipped from a November 5, 1956 newsreel available at the Internet Archives. For more on this mine and these disasters, go to http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/so... . Folksingers Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl wrote a song about the 1958 disaster titled, Springhill Mine Disaster and recorded recently by U2 and on YouTube at • Video . An excellent book, Last Man Out, written by Mellissa Fay in 2003 describes the final 1958 disaster and its affect on the miners and their families.
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