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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]
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
Almy, Wyoming; H. Hanna Mine disasters This page was last edited on 20 September 2024, at 01:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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
1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of ...
Coal mining in Iowa declined in the 1920s and most mines closed in the 1950s. Reclamation of the abandoned areas began in 1983 following the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of ...
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.
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 ...