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The Lewiston (ME) Daily Sun
June 25, 1900

        FATAL MINE EXPLOSION
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        Champion, Mich., June 24. - Four men
      were killed in the Champion mine ex-
      plosion Saturday evening. It was pre-
      viously reported that but one life was
      lost.
        Of five men at the bottom of the
      shaft but one escaped by climbing the
      air hose to pure air. Gases and smoke
      asphyxiated the victims. The cause of
      the explosion was probably due to 
      sparks from a miner's pipe.
      
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