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The disaster at the Union Pacific Coal Company Hanna mine #1 occurred on June 30, 1903. Coal mine gas (methane) was ignited in Mine No. 1 causing a violent explosion and a mine cave-in, killing 169 miners, while 46 survivors narrowly escaped this disaster. [2] Many bodies, recovered over the next year, are buried in the nearby Hanna Cemetery. [3]
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English: The map accompanies The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Volume II , and shows a region around the Hanna defile to the west of the confluence of the River Tigris and the River Wadi [Nahr al Wādī] in central and eastern Iraq, indicating military operations, settlements, rivers and marshes.
Hanna is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 683 at the 2020 census. The town was started as a coal supply location for the Union Pacific Railroad. Much of the old town is built on top of the former workings of the Hanna No. 4 mine. [6] On December 18, 1979, the Town of Hanna annexed the adjacent Town of Elmo.
The disaster occurred just a few months after the U.S. officially declared war on Germany and entered World War I, and at a time when mining companies throughout Western Kentucky were feuding with ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in Wyoming" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 ...
On March 20, 1895, an explosion combined with flying debris at the Red Canyon #5 mine near Almy killed 62 miners. It is the third worst mine disaster in Wyoming history, exceeded only by disasters in Kemmerer and Hanna. Rescue squads tried to enter the mine all through the night, but without success. There were no survivors from the initial ...
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