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Title	Crown Hill coal mine #6, Clinton, Indiana
Alternative title	Crown Hill mine accident article
Description	Scan of a newspaper clipping including two photographs and accompanying captions taken from a newspaper article in the Terre Haute Tribune. The newspaper article, titled “Survivors Tell Terror Tale Of Hours In Mine: Hope Almost Abandoned As Air Gives Out And Fire Bars Way; Prayers Of 19 Men Finally Answered”, covers a mine accident at the Crown Hill mine #6 near Clinton, Indiana. The title at the top reads, "Tribune Pictures of the Mine Fire at Crown Hill, Near Clinton, Show Some of the Scenes of Thrilling Rescues Made". The caption below the first photograph reads, "State police making way through crowds about the mine early Sunday morning when rescue squads carriers minders from the opening of the shaft". The caption below the second photograph reads, "Some of the rescued miners who were able to talk making their way through the crowds which surrounded the shaft. The crowds cheered as (omitted) emerged from the burning mine workings.
Repository	Coal Town & Railroad Museum, P. O. Box 6, Clinton, Indiana, 47842.
Date Digital	2012;
Date Original	Unknown;
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vermillion County -- Clinton;
Subject	Crown Hill Mine No. 6 (Vermillion County, Ind.) Clinton Coal Company (Clinton, Ind.) Coal mine accidents -- Indiana -- Vermillion County
WV3 Subject	Coal -- Photograph Disasters
Type	still image
Material Type	Newspapers
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi;
Copyright	Digital image copyright © 2012 by J. Zanandrea. All rights reserved.
Item ID	ctm-CrownHillMineNo6-00004

Crown Hill coal mine #6, Clinton, Indiana

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