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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]
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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