Mine Rescue

Hellraisers Journal: Twenty-One Men Caught in Burning Mine in Butte, Montana. "No Hope Entertained."

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 02/16/2016 - 12:56pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones

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Wednesday February 16, 1916
Butte, Montana - Hope Faded for Twelve Missing Men in Pennsylvania Mine Fire

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Hope is faded, and, by some accounts, lost for the miners who remain missing in the Pennsylvania Mine. This latest disaster follows, by only four months, the disaster in the Granite Mountain shaft of the Speculator Mine. On October 16th of last year, a mine car filled with 500 pounds of dynamite ignited in a massive explosion which instantly blew seventeen miners into eternity.

From The Omaha Daily Bee:

TWENTY-ONE CAUGHT IN BURNING MINE
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Nine Bodies Recovered from Blazing Copper Workings
at Butte by Rescue Crew.
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TWELVE MORE MEN MISSING
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