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The Big Muddy and Carterville Coal Company opened the North #1 mine in 1907. Franklin Coal & Coke Company took over this mine in 1910, and along with its mine south of Royalton, operated two mines in Royalton. [2] [3] At its peak, the #1 mine (sometimes also referred to as the #7 mine) employed over 600 miners. In 1949 Lyda B mine, was opened ...
In 1905, the St. Paul Coal Company opened the Cherry Mine in order to supply coal for the trains of its controlling company, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. [1] [2] The mine consisted of three horizontal veins, each deeper than the last. The veins were connected vertically by two shafts set some 100 yards (91 m) apart.
1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster; R. Royalton North No. 1 Mine Explosion; W. West Frankfort, Illinois
As the Chicago-Virden Coal Company repeals the agreement the European immigrants in the labor unions that were striking feel threatened by the African American miners coming in. Near the end of September 1868 as one train car came in to Virden full of workers, a stockade was built by the entrance of the mine and around 300 armed workers came from around the area to meet the train as it was ...
This week's coal mine disaster in West Virginia brings with it grim but familiar images and headlines, a new chapter in American coal mining's sometimes tragic legacy. The accident also reminds us ...
Coal Glen mine disaster: Accident – coal mine Farmville, Chatham County, North Carolina: 53 1942 Battle of Dutch Harbor: Military strike – bombing Unalaska, Alaska: 43 American and 10 Japanese fatalities. Deadliest attack on continental U.S. by a foreign power since the Mexican–American War. 53 1947 Eastern Air Lines Flight 605: Accident ...
Six workers were killed in January 2024 after a fire broke out in a rat-hole coal mine in Nagaland state. In 2018, at least 15 men were trapped in an illegal mine in Meghalaya after water from a ...
The name of the post office was changed from Elkhart City to Elkhart in 1883. [14] A new rail depot was built at Elkhart in 1888. Like many frontier towns, Elkhart had its share of fires. The nearby residence of the rancher John D. Gillett was destroyed by fire on February 14, 1871, although he rebuilt on the same site.