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The Calumet News
May 5, 1911


                      MINE FIRE AT NEGAUNEE
                        IS FATAL TO SIX
                        
                 Flames Breaking Out Underground
                    in Hartford Iron Property
                     Shut Off Escape of Some
                           of Miners.
                           
                   FOUR BODIES ARE RECOVERED
                   
              Two Others, Supposed to be Dead, Are 
                 Missing. Most of Men Reach Suf-
                   face Through Old Workings
                       to Cambria Mine.
                       
           Negaunee, Mich., May 5. - Fire broke out in the
         Hartford mine on the third level operated by the
         Republic Iron & Steel company, at 9:30 o'clock
         this morning. All but six miners escaped through
         the old workings which led to the Cambria mine
         shaft.
           The dead brought to the surface were:
           Richard Yelland, and son.
           August Fredericks.
           Finnish miner, name unknown
           Two more men are supposed to be dead.
           At 2:30 p.m. the company was still pouring
         three large streams of water into the shaft
         in the hope of extinguishing the fire.
           However, it looks now as though the fire would
         not be controlled for several days.
           The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
           
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