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The True Northener
Paw Paw, MI
June 29, 1900


                       DISASTER IN A MINE
                       
                Explosion in a Shaft at Champion,
                Mich., Causes Loss of Four Lives.
                
              Champion, Mich., June 25. - Four men lost
            their lives in a Champion mine explosion
            Saturday evening. They are: JOHN FLOYD,
            shift boss, married; NOAH LARK, skip tender,
            single; HERMAN LUMA, miner; OTTO PARKALA,
            miner. Of five men on the twenty-fifth level
            near the explosion 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 is not
            known.
            
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