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Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
At 7.20 am an explosion at Ralph's mine on Raynor Road rocked Huntly. It was caused by a miner's naked acetylene cap-lamp igniting firedamp (methane gas given off by coal)
Huntly First World War memorial

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