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New Straitsville was founded in 1870 as a coal mining town by the New Straitsville Mining Company. The town grew quickly and by 1880 the population was over 4,000 people. The coal mining activity ended in 1884, when a labor dispute at the mine ended with a group of miners sending a burning coal car into the mine, igniting the coal.
Centralia councilman Joseph Tighe proposed a different hypothesis: that Centralia's coal fire was actually started by an adjacent coal-seam fire that had been burning west of Centralia's. His belief is that the adjacent fire was at one time partially excavated, but nonetheless, it set alight the landfill on May 27. [7]
New Straitsville, Ohio: Coal mine fire ignited by striking miners World's Greatest Mine Fire [2] 31 May 1892 Příbram, now in the Czech Republic, 319/? Fire in Marine iron mine 7 September 1895 Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan: 30/? Osceola copper mine caught fire [3] 7 April 1911 Colliery, Throop, Pennsylvania, 72/?
Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the twin toxic towers of fire that forced them from their homes last February after officials decided to blow ...
The Ohio State Fire Marshall announced in a news release Friday that a burn ban, first ordered on Sept. 13, was further extended to nine additional counties mostly in the southwest region of the ...
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During a labor dispute over wages in 1884, striking miners sabotaged a mine at New Straitsville, Ohio by using oil-soaked timbers as an accelerant. The coal seam was fourteen feet (5m) across and extended an undetermined distance into the earth. After several days the fire had become evident but by then it was too late to stop it from spreading.
COLUMBUS – Ohio Fire Marshal Kevin Reardon issued a regional ban on open burning in 24 counties effective Friday because of extremely dry conditions.