Tragic Dawn (Colour Litho)

Tragic dawn. At 280 meters deep, in the Morgnano (Spoleto) lignite mine, while the last team on the night shift was about to leave the Orlando well, an explosion of grisou occurred. From the nearby village, aroused in their sleep by a terrible roar, the rescue teams and the families of the miners flocked. The first light of the new day illuminated the pained and anxious crowd that gathered at the mouth of the well. Twenty-one miners died in the appalling catastrophe; sixteen others suffered more or less serious injuries. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 3 April 1955.