Sugar Notch Entombment, The

DESCRIPTION: "It was in the month of April in 1879 When seven men came to Sugar Notch to work down in the mine." The mine starts to cave in. Lacking food, they kill their mule (with difficulty) and eat it to survive
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1938 (Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
KEYWORDS: mining disaster death food animal
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Apr 23, 1879 - The Sugar Notch cave-in (source: Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch, pp. 182-183, which gives the history of the event)
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch, p. 193, "The Sugar Notch Entombment" (1 text, which I suspect is missing some verses at the end
File: KMMP193A

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