Bélmez, province of Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain. The Bélmez catastrophe, in the coal basin on the banks of the river Guadiato. The "Santa Isabel" mine, shaft nr. 22, where an explosion occurred on the afternoon of 17 March 1898. Photoengraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898.

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