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Article: The rescue heard 'round the world: the year 1936 was eventful for news hounds: The King was having an affair with an American divorcee and would abdicate the throne. Civil war had broken out in Spain. German troops violated the Treaty of Versailles and occupied the Rhineland. Bruno Hauptmann was executed for kidnapping and killing the Lindbergh baby. And then there was the mining disaster in Nova Scotia that became.(Moose River, Nova Scotia)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
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- August 1, 2002
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Sixty-six years ago the village of Moose River, Nova Scotia, became the centre of world attention as millions of people across North America and parts of Europe waited anxiously by their radios for live, up-to-the-minute news reports on a dramatic rescue operation to save three men trapped forty-three metres below the surface of the earth in an old gold mine.
In a ten-day race against time and death, miners and draegermen slowly clawed their way through a tangle of broken timbers and fallen rocks to reach the entombed men before rising mine water snuffed out their lives.
Though Nova Scotia had known worse mining accidents with greater loss of life, the ...
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