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A monument was erected in 1975 near the Millfield disaster site with the names of the men that were lost and the smokestack at Mine No. 6 still stands today. [3] The Millfield Mine Memorial Committee was started in 1973 to honor the dead and remember the tragedy in their community. They hold an annual memorial service. [3]
The fires continued to burn for over a week, and on November 29, rescuers finally admitted defeat after air samples from drill holes showed air unable to sustain human life. The mine was sealed on November 30 with concrete to starve the fire of oxygen. [7] In September 1969, the mine was unsealed in an attempt to recover the miners' bodies.
Lofthouse Colliery was in Lofthouse Gate, close to Outwood in the Stanley Urban District, where many of the colliers lived. The village, to which the colliery was adjacent, now falls within the Ardsley and Robin Hood ward of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough but with a Wakefield postal address (WF3).
Courrières mine disaster - Rescuer equipped with Guglielminetti-Drager breathing apparatus (front). Rescue attempts began quickly on the morning of the disaster, but were hampered by the lack of trained mine rescuers in France at that time, and by the scale of the disaster: some two-thirds of the miners in the mine at the time of the explosion perished, while many survivors suffered from the ...
At the time of the incident, 252 people were in the mine, 205 of whom were brought to the surface. [11] 18 people received medical assistance. Initially, four dead bodies were found, and three more were later discovered. [12] 15 of the injured experienced carbon monoxide poisoning. [13] At 14:00, the bodies of 22 miners were found.
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The mine closed in 1994. In 2013, the Walking Together sculpture by Stephen Broadbent was installed at the site of the former colliery. The walking trail of steel figures is a memorial to the 106 miners who died in mining disasters at the colliery in 1937, 1938 and 1973.
Police have arrested at least a dozen suspects in connection with Turkey's coal mining disaster that killed hundreds last week. Officials say the mine collapsed Tuesday in the city of Soma ...