Eccles mine disaster information

The Eccles mine disaster was an explosion of coal-seam methane that took place on April 28, 1914, in Eccles, West Virginia. The explosion took the lives...

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Virginia after the Monongah Mine disaster of December 6, 1907, that claimed the lives of 361 miners and the Eccles Mine Disaster of April 28, 1914, that claimed...

The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia,...

Number 2 Mine disaster, near Dawson, New Mexico, where 263 workers were killed due to illegal use of dynamite. April 28, 1914: The Eccles mine disaster was...

The Cherry Mine disaster was a fire which occurred at the Cherry Mine, a coal mine outside Cherry, Illinois, on November 13, 1909. The fire, which killed...

The Darr Mine disaster at Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Smithton, killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907...

Department of Labor lists the disaster as the second worst US mining disaster since 1940 with a total of 111 men dead. The mine had received numerous warnings...

This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States...

The Fraterville Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred on May 19, 1902 near the community of Fraterville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee...

The Scofield Mine disaster was a mining explosion that occurred at the Winter Quarters coal mine on May 1, 1900. The mine was located at 39°42′57″N 111°11′17″W...

The Avondale Mine disaster was a massive fire at the Avondale Colliery near Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1869. It caused the death...

The Mammoth Mine disaster or Frick Mine explosion occurred on January 27, 1891 just after 9:00 AM in the Mammoth No. 1 mine in Mount Pleasant Township...

coal mining disaster. In 1889, Union Pacific Railroad needed a reliable fuel source to run its massive coal-fired engines. After the coal mines in Carbon...

The Harwick Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 25, 1904 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, some sixteen mi (26 km) north of Pittsburgh in the western...

from the mine. In fact, only seven of the deaths in the disaster were caused by the explosion; the rest were caused by afterdamp. The mine was re-opened...

The Mather Mine disaster refers to the events surrounding an explosion that occurred in the Mather Mine on May 19, 1928 at 4:07 PM in Mather, Pennsylvania...

The Castle Gate mine disaster occurred on March 8, 1924, in a coal mine near the town of Castle Gate, Utah (now dismantled), located approximately 90...

The Banner mine disaster of April 8, 1911 near Littleton, Alabama was a coal mine explosion that killed 128 people. The event ranks among the 15 deadliest...

The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, on February 26, 1972, when a coal slurry impoundment dam burst, causing...

Clements, Eric L. (Spring 2017). "The one-chance men: The Hastings mine disaster of 1917" (PDF). Colorado heritage. History Colorado. pp. 16–27. ISSN 0272-9377...

April 14 – The city of Irving, Texas, is incorporated. April 18 – Eccles mine disaster April 20 Ludlow Massacre (Colorado Coalfield War (1913–14)): The...

the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other...

ignited the coal dust, killing 362 men. The disaster impelled the United States Congress to create the Bureau of Mines. During the early 20th century, the coal...

liberal scholarship, but more recent writers have criticized him. One, W. J. Eccles, claims that "he most definitely was not one of the 'great early heroes'...