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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 / 39.71583°N 111.18806°W / 39.71583; -111.18806 near the town of Scofield ,
Winter Quarters is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal was discovered in the area in 1875, and later that year, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company began coal mining operations. A group of coal miners was delayed during an early winter storm in 1877, which led to the town's name of Winter Quarters. [2]
Scofield's name is frequently applied to the 1900 mine disaster in the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters mine. The community was named for General Charles W. Scofield, a timber contractor and local mine official. It is the smallest incorporated area in Utah by population.
Utah Railway train passing Colton, June 2010. The site was first settled in 1883 under the name of Pleasant Valley Junction, [2] where the Pleasant Valley Railroad connected the mining town of Winter Quarters, 20 miles (32 km) to the south, to the Rio Grande line. [3]
Coal mining in Iowa declined in the 1920s and most mines closed in the 1950s. Reclamation of the abandoned areas began in 1983 following the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of ...
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 ...
Coffins waiting for rail transport to the Winter Quarters mine site near Scofield, Utah, after the Scofield Mine Disaster on May 1, 1900. Strike The Carbon County ...
Officials don't yet know what led to an massive methane gas explosion at a Massey Energy (MEE) mine in West Virginia that has killed 25 miners and left four others missing. However, it's already ...