Europe's deadliest industrial disaster in 1906 claimed the lives of over 1,000 miners in France
A massive dust explosion in 1906 turned a French coal mine into a tomb for over one thousand workers, triggering a disaster that remains the deadliest of its kind in European history.
The Courrières mine disaster struck Northern France on March 10, 1906, when a devastating explosion ripped through the tunnels. The blast was so powerful it killed 1,099 miners, many of whom were children working in the pits.
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