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	Barrackville Mine Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to those who have had long experience in mine disaster rescue work, there is but small chance that the men will be found alive, although there is a possibility that through some good stroke of luck they may have been sheltered behind some protection when the blast let go.
		At 11 o'clock R. Lambie, chief mine inspector of the state, sent a telegram to Governor Howard Gore, in which he intimated that the situation was bad and that it was impossible yet to tell whether when found any of the miners would be alive.
		Smith, one of the company physicians, in regard to making arrangements for a temporary morgue in case it would be found that the miners had been killed.
	www.wvculture.org /history/disasters/barrackville03.html (3770 words)

	Smith Mine disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Smith Mine disaster was the worst coal mining disaster in the State of Montana, and the 43rd worst in the United States, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
		The report from the United States Bureau of Mines states that 30 of the men were killed instantly by the explosion, and the remainder died either through injuries sustained in the explosion, or through suffocation from the carbon monoxide and methane gas in the mine.
		There is a highway plaque near the mouth of the mine, which was never reopened, and there are memorials in the cemeteries in Bearcreek and nearby Red Lodge, the county seat for Carbon County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smith_Mine_disaster (329 words)

	Smith Mine Disaster Encyclopedia Article @ Befall.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		United States Bureau of Mines states that 30 of the men were killed instantly by the explosion, and the remainder died either through injuries sustained in the explosion, or through
		The explosion was deep underground, and wasn't even heard from the mouth of the mine, despite having enough power to knock a 20-ton locomotive off its tracks 1/4 mile from the blast origin.
		The explosion was attributed to a buildup of methane gas in the mine.
	www.befall.net /encyclopedia/Smith_Mine_disaster (418 words)

	Bear Creek Mountain - Smith Mine Explosion
		Shortly after, the mine's siren was wailing and smoke was billowing from the mine entrance.
		Today, in 2005, the rusted buildings of the Smith Mine stand by the highway as a monument to those who lost their lives beneath the sage covered hills, to their brave survivors, and to the courageous rescuers.
		A brother, Ludwig, was killed in Brophy Mine in 1941.
	www.usmra.com /saxsewell/bearcreekmtn.htm (1946 words)

	Carlisle Mine Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This mine is located at Carlisle, Fayette County, on the White Oak Branch of the C. Railroad and operated by the White Oak Fuel Company.
		It is a shaft mine 440 feet in depth, operating the Sewell seam which has a thickness of four feet, developed on the double entry system, ventilated by an eighteen foot fan which produces 100,000 cubic feet of air per minute and which is divided between the workings of the Carlisle and Oakwood Shafts.
		This mine was known to liberate a slight quantity of explosive gas, but not considered dangerous and open lights were used exclusively by miners and laborers.
	www.wvculture.org /history/disasters/carlisle02.html (355 words)

	Carbon County News Online......Archives
		A sign had been erected at the mine urging men not to miss a single shift in order that coal might be supplied in abundance for the war machine - so that the war machine might finish the task and bring the struggle to a quick and satisfactory end.
		In the meantime, the rusted buildings of the Smith Mine stand by the highway as a monument to those who lost their lives beneath the sage covered hills, to their brave survivors, and to the courageous rescuers.
		But in the end, after the story had disappeared from the headlines, it was the widows, mothers and fathers, children, brothers, sisters, other relatives, loved ones, coworkers and friends – many of whom who participated in the attempted rescue, who had to carry the burden of loss for the remainder of their lives.
	www.carboncountynews.com /2002archive/022703.html (5856 words)

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		Mine penalties are based on six criteria as dictated by Section 110(i) of the 1977 Mine Act, including the size of the mine and its financial condition, past history of violations, how quickly problems have been abated.
		The person who was sent to the mine site by the Dept. of Labor was Dirk Fillpot, who, to the best of our knowledge, has never been to a mine disaster and dealt with the press in a time of crisis.
		Since the Wilberg Mine disaster in 1984, MSHA has played an active role in informing the families of the rescue efforts, and educating the media as to what is occurring and why.
	www.minesafety.com /pages/sagominefacts.html (2348 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mine agency's dual roles draw critics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The United Mine Workers of America, which has clashed repeatedly with mining regulators in the Bush administration, says the government frequently fails to unearth the broader problems that cause accidents and in recent years has conducted investigations in private.
		Smith says the agency avoids conflicts by assigning investigations to people from districts outside where a mine fatality occurred.
		MSHA's Sago Mine investigation is being led by Richard Gates, manager of the agency's district that oversees Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-01-06-mine-agency_x.htm (1121 words)

	Article: Marianna Mine Disaster
		She was a foreigner, but she had a heart--and she loved her family--and it is the experience of those who have been at mine disasters that the families of the foreigners feel even more keenly and poignantly the loss which comes to them in a calamity of this kind.
		The cause attributed to these disasters was (in the care of the Virginia mines disaster in which 114 miners lost their lives,) a heavy windy shot igniting the dust that was left to accumulate in the mine.
		When the mines were closed this morning all of the available bodies had been brought out and those left are the stragglers, probably covered by debris, John H. Jones stated at midnight that he was positive that the rescue work would be completed today, including what bodies are covered by the falling timbers and debris.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/deputate/minres/dms/records/marianna.htm (11890 words)

	Montana Historical Society -
		Hoping to fuel his smelter and mining operations at Butte, Copper King and financier William A. Clark perceived the potential of the Bridger area's high-grade coal and successfully lobbied the NP to construct a branch line to the community in 1898.
		Smith and the NP, however, had had a stormy relationship over the years, and NP president Charles Mellen, a career railroad man, steadfastly refused to consider the proposition.
		Established and managed by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM), Washoe was nonetheless sustained over the years by the YPRR.25 The Washoe Coal Company, a subsidiary of ACM, established the community of Washoe in 1907 to house miners who worked in the nearby mines and their families.
	www.his.state.mt.us /education/cirguides/transaxline.asp (9689 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mine safety fails to make strides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mickey, a 29-year-old supply man with approximately two months of mining experience, was gathering tools and placing them in a material-hoisting car when he was struck and killed by a boulder in the resulting rock slide.
		The common denominator in both mine accidents is that the mining companies were cited for numerous safety violations.
		Yet another citation for a mine that continues to accumulate ultimately unaddressed violations is a meaningless shred of paper when tragedy occurs.
	usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2006-01-10-letters-mine_x.htm (765 words)

	Red Lodge, MT History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mines' days of prosperity were effectively ended on February 27, 1943, when the Smith Mine at Bearcreek was the site of one of the biggest coal mine disasters in American history.
		In the Smith Mine disaster, which took place in the shafts underground, 74 men lost their lives.
		The architectural heritage of Red Lodge was determined by the social structure of early mining and industrial cities, and by the influx of skilled carpenters and construction workers from Europe.
	www.festivalofnations.us /rl_info/rl_hist.htm (2628 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Safety official testifies air packs weren't fully used in mine disaster
		BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Tests on air packs recovered from the Sago Mine show that none of the devices had been used to their full capacity before the trapped miners discarded them, a federal mine- safety official said Thursday.
		At least two miners who were part of a second crew in the mine and escaped the blast told investigators that they, too, struggled with their air packs.
		Mine owner International Coal Group has said it thinks lightning hitting a tree more than a mile away from the mine's opening was able to travel into the mine and spark the blast in a section of the mine that had been abandoned and sealed in December.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002973166_mine05.html (502 words)

	CBS News \| Forensic Clues Could Explain Mine Disaster
		Sometime in the next few days, once the toxic gases in the Sago Mine have cleared, federal and state investigators will go in and begin gathering forensic clues in an effort to establish exactly what touched off the deadly explosion and how the victims spent their final hours.
		Past investigations by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration looked at whether methane detectors were working, and studied barometric pressure readings around the time of the accident, said Ellen Smith, editor of the newsletter Mine Safety and Health News.
		Early reports from the mine suggested lightning _ there were thunderstorms in the area as the men entered the mine _ might have triggered the blast.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/13/ap/national/mainD8F3VF18A.shtml (1140 words)

	Montana DEQ - NAAMLP Conference Tour Information Page
		New World Mining is one of the few abandoned nine sites in the country ever to garner the attention of the President of the United States.
		The ore from Stillwater Mining’s operation is refined in a 3 stage process of extraction, concentration and refining.
		Spring Creek Coal Mine is operated by Rio Tinto Energy, a major producer of coal from the Powder River Basin with mines in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
	deq.mt.gov /AbandonedMines/NAAMLPTours.asp (1465 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Survivor of Sago Mine disaster says doomed miners expected to be saved
		Twelve men died in the Sago mine: one in the Jan. 2 blast and the rest hours later of carbon monoxide poisoning.
		The men retreated to the face of the mine, hung a cloth barrier and plotted their next move in the light of one headlamp.
		Though mine owner International Coal Group Inc. of Ashland, Ky., believes lightning somehow sparked methane gas in the mine, neither state nor federal investigators have identified an official cause of the explosion.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20060628-1311-mineexplosion.html (804 words)

	The Darkest Hour: A Comprehensive Account of the Smith Mine Disaster of 1943, 2nd ed
		On February 27, 1943, an explosion at Smith Mine #3 in Washoe, Montana killed 74 men--the worst coal mining disaster in Montana's history.
		This is the story of the miners, the heroes in the rescue operation, and the communities that were brought close to extinction by the disaster.
		The focus of the book is the people: the miners who died that day, the few survivors that made it out, the heroes of the rescue operation, and the communities devastated by what happened.
	www.redlodgebooks.com /newbooks/0965960919.html (311 words)

	Red Lodge, Montana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To offset this downturn, the manufacture of illegal bootleg liquor, labeled syrup, became an economic mainstay and was sold as far afield as Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California.
		In 1943 tragedy hit Smith Mine #3 near Bearcreek, the area's largest remaining mine.
		This was the worst coal mine disaster in Montana's history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Lodge,_Montana (717 words)

	ABC News: Inspector May Be Behind Mine Confusion
		Four months after the blast, officials from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, West Virginia's Office of Miners' Health Safety and the company that owns the Sago Mine began testifying about the disaster.
		BUCKHANNON, W.Va. May 3, 2006 (AP)— A state mining inspector's shouts during the Sago Mine disaster might have been what led the relatives of 12 missing miners to believe they had all been found alive, he told a public hearing Wednesday.
		Tucker was with the rescue team that discovered the bodies barricaded behind a curtain more than two miles inside the mine in early January.
	abcnews.go.com /US/Mine/wireStory?id=1918422 (452 words)

	Bearcreek, MT - www.bearcreekmt.com
		The town began as a mining camp in the early 1900s.
		In February of 1943 at the Smith Mine, located just outside Bearcreek, 73 men lost their lives in Montana’s worst mine disaster.
		A monument to those miners killed in the Smith Mine is just one of the features.
	www.bearcreekmt.com (259 words)

	ABC News: Sago Mine Hearing Ends With More Questions
		BUCKHANNON, W.Va. May 5, 2006 (AP)— A three-day public hearing about the Sago Mine disaster ended much as it had begun, with a flood of tears, some hearts full of anger and too many questions unanswered.
		That, she was finally told, is the goal of the continuing investigation by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
		Chris Toler said in a letter that he was thankful for the hearings and will discard the pent-up anger he has felt over the death of his father, Martin Toler.
	abcnews.go.com /US/Mine/wireStory?id=1926701 (392 words)

	USA Mine Rescue News
		Use of self-rescuers in hot and humid mines
		The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
		Fire and Brimstone: The north Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
	www.usmra.com /usa.htm (69 words)

	The Sago Mine Disaster
		A new and beautiful Ballad about the Sago Mine Disaster set to Bluegrass Music by the Lonesome R ide Bluegrass Band
		This is an original song written by Gary and Wilma Smith to pay tribute to the twelve men who died in the Sago Mine disaster and to the lone survivor.
		Ballad of The Sago Mine Disaster, January 2, 2006
	lonesomeride.com /the_sago_mine.htm (194 words)

	Black Lies [Fiction]
		The tough-minded spitfire retires to a Beartooth Mountain river cabin hideaway, a stone's throw from her colorful hometown of Red Lodge, Montana.
		It takes the state's greatest coal mining disaster (the Smith Mine explosion in Washoe), murder, and a lost love to pry Alice out of the dark corners of her isolated existence.
		For more on the Smith Mine disaster, see The Darkest Hour, by Fay Kuhlman and Gary Robson.
	www.redlodgebooks.com /newbooks/0595096360.html (175 words)

	www.bearcreekmt.com - Smith Mine Disaster
		The above ground buildings of the Smith Mine as it appeared in
		In addition, it was payday for the Smith Mine
		Little did the residents of the three communities
	www.bearcreekmt.com /disa.htm (1888 words)

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