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...second greatest* mining catastrophy known in Germany occurred in the Minister Stein† mine at Dortmund when 200 or more miners perished in an explosion of fire-damp...
Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...
...Minister Stein mine is named after the celebrated Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Baron vom und zum Stein, German statesman...
...mine named after Baron von und zum Stein...
...peace of Tilsit, between Napoleon and Prussia, it was laid down that the Prussian Army was not to exceed 42,000 men. Prussia kept the treaty, but men like Scharnhorst, Clausewitz, Gneisenau, Stein, Grolmann, saw a way around it. They reorganized the Army on the basis of universal military service, which meant that they would never have an army of more than 42,000 men; but as the old classes were released, new classes were called up, and an effective trained reserve was formed...