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Show 34 Energy Edition, January, 1994 Mining disasters: (Continued from Page 33) ering from the face. Shrieks awful to hear penetrate the dark gloomy atmosphere as someone faints at the foot of Servicing the Mining Industry, Power Plants and Construction SPECIALIZING Fluid their husbands or fathers corpse. Mortuaries and funeral homes throughout Utah sent every available coffin in the state to the little mining community. But there were not enough to handle the number of dead, and more had to be rushed to the Scofield disaster site from as far away as Denver, Colo. IN Pneumatic Power & Products DISTRIBUTOR FOR TELEDYNE REPUBLIC ATLAS START MASTER SAUER SUNDSTRAND GRESEN WIKA VICKERS Castle Gate ENFM HYDRAULIC POWER UNITS DELTA and delivery services to Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Manufacturing direct with drop shipment available. pick-u- p 1384 west 1955 North P.O. Box 911, Price, Utah 84501 Telephone (801) 637-577- FAX (801) 0 An The blasts sent frightened Utah Fuels showcase. The first shattering blast occurred about 7,000 feet from the mines entrance, trapping over 100 workers in the underground shafts. It blew the steel doors off the entrance, tearing their hinges out of concrete and hurling them across the canyon where they were imbedded jarred the small mining community at Castle Gate. -- OILDYNE-VICKERS Custom Designed Available Weekly On the morning of March 8, 1924, three explosions 637-571- 6 women and children running toward the portal of Utah Fuel Companys No. 2 mine, located one mile east of the town. The underground facility exploded with devastating violence when accumulated gas and coal dust ignited inside the No. 2 mine, touted amusement hall at Castle Gate serves as a temporary morgue for some of the victims killed in the 1 924 Utah Fuel Company disaster. as in the mountainside. Heavy timbers from inside the mine were also thrown more than a mile across the canyon. The disasters three explosions and resulting afterdamp claimed the lives of 173 men, including one would-b- e rescuer. The youngest fatality was the brother of another victim killed in the mining accident. Relatives and friends of 15-year-- WESTFALIA MINING PROGRESS, INC. MINING'EQUIPMENTfANDACCESSORIES REPRESENTING WR BECORIT INDUSTRIES Telephone or Price, Utah 84501 FAX COMPLETE LONGWALL WESTFALIA SYSTEMS CONVEYOR PRODUCTS Belt Storage Magazines Belt Benders Face Conveyors Stage Loaders Fully Automated Inseam Belt Turnover Devices Electro-Hydraul- Controls ic crowded the roadway leading to the underground facilitys entrance. By March 11, over 100 bodies had been recovered, effectively WESTFALIA 200 South Carbon Avenue Roof Supports the entombed miners Continuous Haulage Systems squelching any hope that remained and ending the grim suspense. It took nearly two weeks to remove all of the victims from the underground shafts, which were filled with deadly gas and flooding water. Rescue workers used horses to carry the dead from the mine. On March 24, the haunt-ingl- y melancholy sound of Taps echoed from the bleak hillside above Castle Gate in memory of Carbon Countys dead miners. Sealed caskets were car- ried from the towns amusement halls, which had served as temporary morgues, and loaded onto bare trucks. Grieving survivors followed the funeral processions to cemeteries in Price, Helper and Castle Gate. SCHARF MONORAIL SYSTEMS CRUSHERS EXTRA COPIES Energy Edition 76 West Main, Price, UT 84501 |