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Coal Creek Mine Disaster, May 22, 1902.

Large crowd of men and women in front of a railway passenger car. A dead body covered in a sheet is being unloaded from a train car.

Photographer: Unknown
Fernie Museum, FMP.00202

Trains were used to remove the bodies of 128 miners killed to Fernie, BC for burial. Twenty-eight of the deceased were Italian.