Without Warning
The Worst Mine Disaster in European History
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On the morning of March 10, 1906, 1,664 men and boys went down four coal pits in northern France. 1,099 never came back up. Three weeks later, thirteen of them walked out on their own. The search had been called off two and a half weeks earlier. The engineers had already told everyone there was nobody left alive down there.
Courrières was not a mine with a bad reputation. It had taken a high…