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Fire-Damp explosion.

--On Tuesday night last an explosion occurred in the Egypt coal mine, near Fayetteville, N. C., by which six men were killed and the machinery considerably damaged. Of the men, five were conscripts, who had been detailed to work in the mines to escape service in the army.

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