03-10-23, 11:43 AM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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HEY Dusty! Won't you be mine?
1906: About 1100 French miners in Courrières, France were killed by a coal-dust explosion. 500 miners escaped incl.
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A group of thirteen survivors, known later as the rescapés, was found by rescuers on 30 March, twenty days after the explosion.They had survived at first by eating bark from the crossbeams, later by eating a rotting mine horse.[8] They avoided dehydration by drinking the water dripping from the walls. The two eldest (39 and 40 years old) were awarded the Légion d'honneur, the other eleven (including three younger than 18 years of age) received the Médaille d'or du courage.[citation needed] A final survivor was found on 4 April.
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Only a similar disaster in China in 1942, under Japanese control, (1500) has been worse.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courrières_mine_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benxihu_Colliery
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