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Thread #84855   Message #1568371
Posted By: Abby Sale
22-Sep-05 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Sept 22 (Gresford Disaster)
Subject: happy? - Sept 22 (Gresford Disaster)
         You've heard of the Gresford Disaster,
        Of the terrible price that was paid;
        Two hundred and forty two colliers were lost,
        And three of the rescue brigade.

        Now the fireman's reports they are missing
        The records of forty-two days;
        The collier manager had them destroyed
        To cover his criminal ways.

                "The Gresford Disaster" (DigTrad filename[ GRESFORD)
                occurred Sept. 22 1934; 265 miners died.

Bonus happy? - not related to any folk song I know but jusy a great news squib as they go -

Under a tree in Hyde Park, London: Anuban Bell & Sunee Whitworth of Thailand were killed by a lightning bolt conducted by the underwires in their bras on 10/27/1999. (I have this story from an Orlando Sentinel squib. It is "Confirmed True" by Darwin Awards which gives the date as 22 September 1999.)

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