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Taxi Driver’ Recalls An Springhi I: Mine-In:’

ficere for something te do to

help, was finally handed: the”

vials of blood and told to.drive«

road; nearly two hours when | the Mounties flagged him. | i

McBurnie's stubble. He | the 130 miles to Halifax. When the RCMP car. croneed his right foot hard,om | There the blood would be Ss = pore ne matched for transfusions. 4 $1 .25 | ed Ty a. tired, McBurnie stuck to. back ee

eyes squinted _ is to avoid the heavy: traf- = _ FULL COURSE :

~ to keep the speeding fie: already pouring into’ & daily special q & Vandlecte us 440 i fated ee ee cen =: "

, other cars~weré rac west cf

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“| yeached the blood bank,’ Me-

‘Burnie paced -back and forth earls to start ‘the, trip poe But a Mountie told him elax. The blood would be hoe to Springhill by. heli+ copter.

“When she blew it was like ‘an atomic explosion,”’ Mc- “You couldn't imagine ,the feelings on those « faces there at the - pithead. There were. thousands of them milling around. Every-— body felt helpless.” .°

But there were some could help. Rescue stood by. as: No. 4 Colliery, a big coal producer for more than 25 years, continued to belch smoke and flame. As soon as firemen put out the fire in the bankhead area, rescue crews started down on the first-of anger ofle secon

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before the danger ofa second explosion forced a ha SAVED 88 MINERS 2 he rescue work, carried ‘by draegermen equipped with gear .to protect them against the deadly fumes in the mine and by: “‘bare-faced”’ miners, was back - .breaxing “and “heroic—But—it—paid= off. Eighty - eight. miners were

brought . out _,alive in four nights and 2 days. Several of “the survivors

scrambled out -of their wire stretchers. when they reached

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lances. : One of these was Con Em- bree, survivor of two earlier mine accidents: and son of a map who survived the 1891 No. 1 Colliery disaster here which killed 125. Embree, whose leadership after the ex- plosion was credited with sav- ing many Hives, scrambled out of his stretcher and said:

in—on my feet.” A -erowd of several hundred set off a deafening cheer.

But 39 men, including the seven-on_the surface and two .; rescue workers who were')) overcome. by poisonous gas,

One of the. survivors, 40- year-old’ Ken Gilbert, now is a correctional officer ‘at the federal penitentiary at nearby Dorchester, N.B. Gilbert Feached thessunface 50 hours after ‘the explosion, vowing never to return to the» mines. ‘OUT FOR GOOD’

But like so many of his

companions, Gilbert did go’ back. He worked in neighbor- upheaval Oct. - aster.

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Springhill today ‘doesn't look much like a coal town. Gone are the big surface’ -installa- tions, the mine whistles and the endless criticism of the bosses. Even the railway— like the mines owned by the

Cumberland. Railway and.

Coal.Co.—is no more.

The Cumberland company pulled out completely follow- ing the 1958 disaster in No. 2 Colliery.. The surviving mine employs about 100—a far cry

from. the. 1,585 who worked™ here ‘when Nos. 2 and 4 were

hoisting.

But everyone here’ ‘remem- bers the days when every _able-bodied_man_.in_town_ had. a lamp and a coal company number ard: could ‘bring liome a good pay envelope every week;. when the Springhill ' Fencebusters lived up to their name in baseball} parks around the Maritime .prov- -inces; when the high-pitched

whistle of the steam Roomot-

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The mine in psoduction here . now is tiny by Springhill standards. No. 2 Colliery, for instance,--had working areas 15,000 feet from the surface But the 100-man operation is one of the town’s major em- ployers today. Several small industries have been estab- lished .and the federal. govern- ment has placed a minimum security institution “not far from the former pithead areas.

And there are jobs—such as the’ one Ken _ Gilbert worked hard to qualify er. in neighboring towns.

mining is a tradition

*waeas are_the hazards that.

go with it. Freak- geological structures in the Cumberland field’ provide conditions sub-

ject to “bumps”. — upheavals ©

of the mine flbor and walls

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caused by. build-ups of gas. It |

was a massive bump bg wrecked’ No. 2 Colliery.

* 1958.

But the explosion that |

erupted at 5:07 p.m.' Nov. 1, 1956. in No. 4 colliéry was

‘something completely differ-

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Thirteen months after: the disaster, a ‘Nova Scotia pro- commis- sion repotted ‘the explosion was caused by a deadly chain reaction.

The comraialon said a rut- away trip—or on touched off the ane cars loaded: uncoupled as <2 wine hoisted up the mine. hee ak “slleed. nee oe electric cable.

An are from the broken cable ignited clouds ‘of coal dust stirred up by the run- ‘dway and the explosion that we ee eee at methane~gas. ——- es

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Company officials and union leaders got-little sleep during the early days of November, 1956. But ‘their worst hours were those of early morning,

éxplosion. Twenty - men were still unaccounted for, but-rescue_ agreed there was ‘no. chance --any of them were alive:

MINE oe oe ae of: further rescue operations was tob great, they

decided. The mine was sealed.

The task of announcing the grim decision fell on Harold Gordon, chief ‘of coal opera- tions for Dominion Steel and

grey: his life milany times in leading rescue workers into the shat-

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