Kalo's cousin, the 37-year-old Lin Xiuqin, remembers that about 150 Amis were working in the mine. The explosion occurred at noon, and elementary school students were notified to return home early. "Auntie told us, 'Daddy is gone,'" she recalls. "On television there were black-faced corpses everywhere being carried out."
卡洛的堂姐、37 歲的林秀琴記得，當時約有 150 位阿美族人在礦區工作，爆炸當天中午，小學生被通知提早回家，「姑姑告訴我們『爸爸走了』，電視新聞畫面裡，到處都是被抬出來、臉上黑掉的屍體。」