Rolling Mill Mine Disaster

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ROLLING MILL MINING DISASTER. At 11:20 A.M. on July 10, 1902, an explosion ripped through the Klondike District (Note 1) of the Rolling Mill Mine in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 114 men, most of whom were Polish, Slovak, and Croatian immigrants, lost their lives in the explosion and deadly afterdamp (Note 2) which followed.

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Rolling Mill Mine Disaster July 10, 1902. Schuylkill River: River of Revolutions . Susquehanna Log Boom . The Canal Era in Pennsylvania . The Craighead House . The …

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An explosion at Cambria's Rolling Mill Mine claimed the lives of 112 miners,... Operators steadily adopted machinery to boost miners' productivity, replace workers, and cut labor costs. Mechanization also decreased the need for skilled miners, thus diminishing the control and autonomy that skilled miners had enjoyed in the work place.

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Cambria Memory Project. March 15 ·. Help us raise funds for the historical marker for the miners lost in the Rolling Mill Mine disaster in 1902. Watch the …

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The "Rolling Mill Mine Disaster" still ranks as one of the most deadly accidents in the history of mining in the United States. Many ghostly …

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1902: Rolling Mill Mine Disaster Firedamp was also the likely cause of an explosion in the Rolling Mill mine in Johnstown that killed 112 miners on July 10, 1902. Miners working in the Klondike ...

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In July 2022, when ceremonies are held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the Rolling Mill Mine disaster, an official Pennsylvania historical marker will …

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A mine explosion took place in the Cambria Steel Company rolling mill mine, under Westmont Hill, at 12:20 o'clock to-day. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement

Johnstown, PA Mine Catastrophe, Jul 1902 | GenDisasters ...

Johnstown, Pa., July 11 â€" Just as day broke through the pall of fog this morning the grim details of the awful disaster at the rolling mill mine of the Cambria Steel Company dawned with renewed force on the thousands waiting for authentic news as to the extent of the explosion.

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A tragic explosion there on July 10 th, 1902 claimed the lives of 112 miners. Many stories have been passed around the area about the mine site being haunted and S.P.L.A.T. Investigations has done a great deal of research to try and uncover the truth behind the stories. Cambria Steel owned the mine and it was in operation from about 1856 to 1931.

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He worked for many years in the Rolling Mill mine until the fatal disaster there in the summer of 1902 when he gave up mining. The deceased was born in Wales in 1839 being the son of John J. Harris and Jane Thomas Harris, who came to America in …

Johnstown Tribune Democrat, 1967

DISASTER 65 YEARS AGO Today is the 65th aniversary of the old Rolling Mill Mine disaster -- a reminder that the good old days were not always so good. On July 10, 1902, an explosion snuffed out 112 lives in underground coal facilities of the Cambria Steel Co.

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-- Rolling Mill Mine Disaster, Johnstown, Cambria County: Explosion at the bituminous coal mine owned by the Cambria Iron Co. in 1902. It is cited as one of several in the first decade of the 1900s – the deadliest in the history of US mining – that contributed to the establishment of the Pennsylvania Department of Mines.

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On July 10, 1902, a powerful explosion occurred in the Rolling Mill coal mine in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Most of the 112 miners who lost their lives in this disaster were immigrants from England ...

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June 4, 1901 - Chapin Mine, Iron Mountain, Dickenson County - Dynamite explosion - 8 fatalities (I) December 7, 1907 - Rolling Mill Mine, Negaunee, Marquette County - Skip fell - 10 fatalities (I) May 5, 1911 - Hartford-Cambria #2, Negaunee, Marquette County - Fire in mine - 7 fatalities (I) May 13, 1912 - Norrie Mine, Ironwood, Gogebic County.

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MINE WORKED FOR 50 YEARS Gas Said to Have Been Noticed in Section Where Disaster Occurred for Past Three Years. Johnstown, July 11 â€" The rolling mill mine has been worked for about fifty years. Five or six years ago the section where the disaster of yesterday occurred was opened. The miners fancifully called it the Klondike.

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Rolling Mill Mine Disaster, Johnstown, Cambria County Explosion at the bituminous coal mine owned by the Cambria Iron Co. in 1902. It is cited as one of several in the first decade of the 1900s – the deadliest in the history of US mining – that contributed to the establishment of the Pennsylvania Department of Mines.

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They say the Miners are still working their shift at the Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown Pa. The Johnstown area has seen more than its shares of disasters, floods,explosions and accidents over the past 200 years from 3 disastrous floods to tragic trolley and train accidents to deaths in its steel mills and manufacturing plants.

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1902 - July 10 – The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners. July 10, 1902 1906 - SEVEN DEAD, TWO INJURED. EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE OF CAMBRIA STEEL CO. MANAGEMENT BELIEVES GAS WAS FIRED BY THE SETTING OFF OF A BLAST. Johnstown, Pa., Oct. 25.

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This 12 minute video is a 100th Anniversary Commemorative of the Rolling Mill Mine Disaster of July 10th, 1902. May God rest the souls of this tragedy.

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Rolling Mill Mine Disaster of 10 Jul 1902, Johnstown, PA On July 10, 1902, an explosion snuffed out 112 lives in underground coal facilities of the Cambria Steel Co. Opened in 1856, the Rolling Mill Mine supplied coal to the steel plant along the banks of the Conemaugh River.

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The Rolling Mill Mine in Negaunee, circa 1917-1918, is pictured. (Photo courtesy of the Marquette Regional History Center) Editor's note: This article was adapted from one that was originally ...

Mining Resources – Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Mining Resources. Mining in Pennsylvania was a well regulated industry after the Avondale mine disaster in 1869.Details of mining accidents, fatal and nonfatal, can be found in the volumes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Mine Inspector Reports.Publications began in 1870 and continues today; however, the reports are only genealogically useful until the 1920's.

SCORES OF JOHNSTOWN MINE VICTIMS BURIED; Sunday …

JOHNSTOWN, Penn., July 13. -- This has been a day of funerals. Scores of victims of the Rolling Mill Mine disaster were buried here and in Cambria City, where every church had its …

Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, 1964

THE JOHNSTOWN TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT JOHNSTOWN, PA 1964. 10 Jul 1964 Submitted by Lynne Canterbury. MINE BLAST HERE 1902 TRAGEDY CLAIMED 113 "An explosion of gas in the Rolling Mill Mine just before noon to-day entombed from 75 to 100 men, and the mine foreman and four assistants who went to investigate the result of the accident lost their lives in …

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EXPLOSION. 29. Note: From 1884 to 1961, accidents fatally injuring five or more employees were classed as disasters. From 1961 to date, accidents fatally injuring three or more employees are classed as disasters. *December 14, 1906 – This explosion killed 4 employees and 2 individuals on the surface near the mine. Last revised: 03/28/16 02:05 PM.

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On July 10, 1902, the Rolling Mill Mine became the site of one of the deadliest accidents in U.S. mining history, when an explosion and resulting toxic gases killed 112 miners, mostly recent immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.

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Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners (10 Jul 1902) A five month strike by United Mine Workers ends in the United States (21 Oct 1902) San Francisco earthquake (est. magnitude 7.8) destroys much of city, killing at least 3,000; with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages (18 Apr 1906) ...

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The Rolling Mill Mine, circa 1918. (Photo courtesy of the Marquette Regional History Center) Editor's note: This article was adapted from one that was originally published in the USW Local 4974 ...

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Dec 09, 2011Mining Feature: Coal Mine Explosion Prevention There are two main types of coalmine explosions: methane and coal dust Methane explosions occur when a buildup of methane gas contacts a heat source and there is not enough air to dilute the gas level below its explosion point Likewise, fine particles of coal dust in the right concentration that

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Rolling Mill Mine: Johnstown, Pennsylvania: 1905 Tornado: 112+ 1905 Snyder tornado: Snyder, Oklahoma: 1915 Accident – coal mine: 112 Layland, West ia#Mine disaster: Layland, West ia: 1916 Tornado outbreak: 112+ June 1916 tornado outbreak: Southern United States: Including 25 deaths from a single tornado family in Arkansas

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1902 — Rolling Mill Mine Explosion, Johnstown, Pennsylvania — Mine foreman, Harry Rodgers; assistant mine foreman, William Blanchard; and fire bosses, John Whitney and John Thomas were overcome by the afterdamp while attempting to rescue other miners.

Rolling Mill Mine Disaster named Pa. historical marker

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Rolling Mill Mine Disaster in Johnstown has been approved as a historical marker. The explosion at the coal mine owned by Cambria Iron in 1902 has been cited as one ...

Rolling Mill Mine Explosion

-- An explosion occurred in the Cambria Steel Company's coal mine here, in which seven men were killed and two severely injured. The management of the company says in an official statement: "By an explosion in the rolling mill mine of the Cambria Steel Co. seven men are dead and two are painfully but not fatally injured.

Rolling Mill Mine disaster Part 1 | News, Sports, Jobs ...

These were the grim words which met the eyes of the readers the day after a terrible accident at the Rolling Mill mine in Negaunee on Sept. 20, 1907. Not since the winter of 1902 when 10 miners...