• 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...
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    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...
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  • unincorporated community Scofield, Utah, a very small town Scofield Mine disaster, when a coal mine exploded near the town in May 1900 Scofield Reservoir, a reservoir...
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  • suffered three disasters before they were closed for being unsafe.[citation needed] The Scofield Mine disaster occurred on May 1, 1900, near Scofield, Utah. At...
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    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,...
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  • disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters...
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  • mining disaster in United States history and the second worst mining disaster in the history of the state of Utah, following the Scofield Mine disaster of...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • ofiar eksplozji gazu w Gdańsku". 29 October 2014. Talbott, Tim. "Scotia Mine Disaster". ExploreKYHistory. Retrieved 27 June 2023. "Explosion kills 67 at school...
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    The Darr Mine disaster at Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Smithton, killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907...
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    Ottawa–Hull kills 7 and leaves 15,000 homeless. May 1, 1900 – The Scofield Mine disaster in Scofield, Utah, caused by explosion killing at least 200 men. June...
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    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...
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  • American vessel losses or combat deaths. 1900 – The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • sight Kaffeklubben Island. May 1 – Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder in a coal mine in Scofield, Utah, United States, kills 200 people...
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  • the passengers on his train. May 1 – Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder in coal mine in Scofield, Utah kills at least 200. May 23 –...
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  • ISBN 0-942688-01-5. History to Go on utah.gov Powell, Allan Kent (1994), "Scofield Mine Disaster", in Powell, Allan Kent (ed.), Utah History Encyclopedia, Salt Lake...
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  • The Benwood Mine Disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred on Monday, April 28, 1924, at the Benwood Mine of the former Benwood Works of Wheeling...
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  • 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...
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    The Avondale Mine disaster was a massive fire at the Avondale Colliery near Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1869. It caused the death...
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    Tales and Trails. Retrieved 2009-05-26. Powell, Allan Kent (1994), "Scofield Mine Disaster", in Powell, Allan Kent (ed.), Utah History Encyclopedia, Salt Lake...
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    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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    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...
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    Dawson, New Mexico (category Coal mining disasters in New Mexico)
    Cimarron, and was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923. In 1950, the mines were closed, and by 1954 the last residents had left...
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