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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday May 2, 1900
Scofield, Utah – Awful Mine Disaster Leaves Hundreds of Widows and Orphans
From The Salt Lake Herald of May 2, 1900:
[More than 100 Utah families left bereft and destitute:]
[Map showing location of Winter Quarters Mine:]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Mother Jones Quote, Life Cheaper Than Props,
Trinidad CO, Sept 16, 1913, Hse Com p2630
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=92IvAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA2630
The Salt Lake Herald
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-May 2, 1900
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1900-05-02/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Note: official death toll was set at 200.
Pleasant Valley Company
Winter Quarters Nos. 1 & 4 Mine Explosion
a.k.a. Scofield Mine
Scofield, Utah
May 1, 1900
No. Killed – 200
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/winter_quarters.htm
Names of Miners Killed
http://www.carbon-utgenweb.com/miners.html
The Deseret Evening News
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-May 2, 1900
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045555/1900-05-02/ed-1/seq-1/
Scofield Mine Disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Mine_disaster
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Scofield Mine Disaster – Rosalie Sorrels
Lyrics by Utah Phillips
Don’t you see that funeral train?
Don’t you see that funeral train?
Rolling down that lonesome valley
It’s the longest one I’ve seen.
May the 1st was bright and clear
1900 was the year
A great explosion rocked our town
While the men were underground.
When we gathered at the slide
We thought that just a few had died
Fought our way in past the mine head
Carried out two hundred dead.
When we brought them to the light
It was black and an awful sight
In one family there were nine
Lost inside that burning mine.
A miner’s life is hard I know
His work is dark and far below
While he starves and goes in rags
He’s cheaper than the coal he digs.