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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] This tragedy was the greatest loss of life in any Wyoming mining disaster. [4]
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.
English: Memorial services at Mine No. 1 for miners killed in the Hanna Mine disasters. Services held on March 28, 1910, on the two-year anniversary of the disaster. Published in the International Socialist Review with the caption "Memorial Service Over Murdered M
Officials don't yet know what led to an massive methane gas explosion at a Massey Energy (MEE) mine in West Virginia that has killed 25 miners and left four others missing. However, it's already ...
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Castle Gate Mine disaster: Accident – coal mine Castle Gate, Utah: 171 miners and one rescue worker 171 1908 Rhoads Opera House fire: Fire (building) Boyertown, Pennsylvania: Sources conflict on number of fatalities: 170 or 171. 169 1903 Hanna Mine disasters: Accident – coal mine Carbon County, Wyoming: 168+ 1880 Tornado outbreak of April 1880
1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster kills 38 in Eastern Kentucky. An explosion at Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden in Leslie County, killed 38 miners when the blast occurred Dec. 30, 1970.
A tornado that ripped through the country's largest coal mining site in northeast Wyoming left eight people injured and halted operations as first responders searched the massive open-pit site for ...