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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] Many bodies, recovered over the next year, are buried in the nearby Hanna Cemetery ...
Almy was a coal mining camp in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States, near the town of Evanston. In 1881, an explosion killed 38 miners in the Central Pacific Mine, marking the first mine explosion west of the Mississippi River. Another explosion killed 13 in 1886, and a third explosion in Red Canyon in 1895 killed 62 miners, the third worst ...
The company paid for their passage to the United States and gave them clothing and housing. Between 1900 and 1904, about 550-750 men were working at the mine. [2] [3] In 1907, the Cambria Salt Company opened in an attempt to revive the old salt mines, but the operation failed within four years. In 1910, KB&C sold the mines to investors in the East.
Gebo is a ghost town located in Hot Springs County in the U.S. state of Wyoming.It is located approximately 11 miles (18 km) north of Thermopolis.. The town was established as a coal town in 1907 alongside the nearby camps of Crosby and Kirby. [2]
In 2011 Wyoming's coal mines employed 7,000 people; a high was reached in 1981 when 38,500 Wyomingites were recorded as being employed in the mining industry. Most of Wyoming's coal mines are in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming, especially in Campbell County. [6] More than 88% of the state's coal production was contributed by ...
A Wyoming coal mine that supplies fuel to a power plant that will be converted to burn gas plans to lay off 19 workers next month, the latest of thousands of jobs lost in the beleaguered U.S. coal ...
Coal mining disasters in Wyoming (2 P) Pages in category "Coal mining in Wyoming" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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 ...