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On August 27, 1922, a fire broke out deep in the main shaft of the Argonaut Mine, then one of the deepest gold mines in North America, and 47 miners were lost in what was noted as the largest gold mine disaster in North America. The dead were men from California, Texas, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Montenegro, Portugal, Hercegovina, Serbia, Illinois, Washington, Sweden, Dalmatia, Sardinia, and Michigan, and they were buried in Jackson City Cemetery, Jackson Catholic Cemetery, and at St. Sava.
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