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Show BURIED UNDER EARTH SLIDE Thirty Men Meet Death While Mine Is Half Filled With Ore, Rocks, Dirt, 8now and ice. Duluth, Mich. Thirty men were caught In a great slide of earth at tbe Norman mine near Virginia at 6 o'clock Saturday. The pit Is 125 feet deep and was more than half filled by the avalanche, which came without with-out warning and extended 150 feet beyond where the victims were entombed. en-tombed. The catastrophe was quite unlike anything in the history of iron mining on the range. The difference was that it came In the form of an avalanche. Uehlnd and before the pit were thousands of tons of ore, rocks, earth, snow and ice and the rapid warming of the atmosphere released them upon the miners. |