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Coal mine explosion in China kills 90 people, state media say

A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday, in the country's deadliest mining accident in recent years.

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1905

400 Russian Miners Killed. Disastrous Gas Explosion in Colliery at Makeyonka.

The sun. (New York [N.Y.]), July 1, 1905

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Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. LONDON, June 30.—The Globe says that a private telegram has been received at Cardiff from Ekaterinoslav, South Russia, reporting a terrible explosion of gas in a colliery at Makeyevka, in the Donetz country. Four hundred and sixty men were killed.

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The sun. (New York [N.Y.]), July 1, 1905 — front page

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