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'Everybody knows what the deal is'  view story
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Timothy B. Wheeler - - Baltimore Sun
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When the shift changed at Mettiki coal mine yesterday afternoon, the begrimed miners emerging from the bowels of Western Maryland's Backbone Mountain pressed for news from neighboring West Virginia, where a dogged search was under way for 13 miners missing after a mine explosion there over the weekend.
This morning, families of the miners received the devastating news that 12 of 13 coal miners died following an explosion that trapped them hundreds of feet underground.
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