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Show I Scene of Disaster in Which French Miners Lost Their Lives I Courrleres, the scene of the recent catastrophe, Is In Pase lb Calais, northern France, canteen miles distant dis-tant from ncthune. It has a population popula-tion of 3,390. It Is In the center of France's greatest coal dlstilct. This district has an area of 190 square miles, and employed In It aro 20,000 i i 7 1" i I hands. The amount of coal mined annually an-nually Is 5,000,000 tons. Coal was first discovered here In 1717, at Tres-nes. Tres-nes. For centuries the district around Courrleres has been prominent in Its manufactures, and the almost inexhaustible inex-haustible beds' of coal will secure it that supremacy for centuries to come. |