“ATTEMPT RECOVERY 3 MINERS' BODIES,” Montreal Gazette. August 7, 1942. Page 13. ---- Two of Five Bodies Located at Cadomin Mine After Worst Disaster in District --- Cadomin, Alberta, August 6. CP - A double shift of miners, working their way through huge masses of coal and debris, late today sought to recover the bodies of three of five Cadomin miners killed last night in the worst disaster in the mining history of the district.
The accident occurred when water which had accumulated from old workings, swelled by recent rainfalls, burst into No. 9 level in the Cadomin mine shaft, about 150 miles southwest of Edmonton.
Two bodies have been recovered from the wreckage. They were identified as those of John Wallace and Victor Alleggretto. Bodies of the three other men have been located, but have not been reached because of the difficulty of removing debris. They are fireboss John Logan and miners Joseph Dorobrowski and Carl Stocks.
Several miners working in the shaft escaped into another crosscut of the mine by running ahead of the flowing mass of debris. These included Pete Laghi, Michael Kapusinski and Harry Pyson, all Cadomin residents.
A. A, Millar of Edmonton, Chief Mines Inspector for Alberta, said today he planned to leave at once for Cadomin to investigate circumstances surrounding the accident, and that he will report his findings to the provincial department after the investigation.
(William Goodwin, Mines Inspector for the Cadomin District, was at Cadomin in the course of his regular inspection work when the accident occurred, Millar said.)
