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The disaster at the Union Pacific Coal Company Hanna mine #1 occurred on June 30, 1903. 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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Shortly after the disaster, then-Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher attributed the explosion to a leak of methane gas within the mine. The disaster was one of three high-profile mining accidents to ...
Coal mining disasters in Wyoming (2 P) ... Transportation disasters in Wyoming (2 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 3 June 2024, at 21:58 (UTC). Text ...