Morning Mine Disaster 1936

Date: 6 Oct 1936 [unknown]
Location: Mullan, Shoshone County, Idaho
Surnames/tags: Mining_Disasters Disasters Idaho

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History and Circumstances

• Date: 6 Oct 1936
• Location: Category:Mullan, Idaho
• Victims: 10 deaths, 1 survivor (the cager)
• Cause: Hoisting accident.

Mine Disaster Circumstances

Five men were hoisted up 3,050 feet with no problems.^[1] Right after that, the cager left the cage and allowed six men to enter the lower deck making the total ten men on the hoist.^[1][2] It was designed to move ore but was used to raise and lower men and ore.^[2] The cage was lowered until flush with the station floor. While the cager was opening the doors the rope broke about 1,200 feet above the cage.^[1][3] All ten men were killed.^[1][2][3] Five of those men left families behind.^[3]

Miners Name Sourced Bio Connected Category Rex Mitheletta Harry McGowan Andrew Kese August Siponene Carl Donaldson William R. Buchanan Jerry Phelan Cleo Purcell Elmer Woodworth Louis Goff

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} United States Mine Rescue Association. "All Mine Disasters in the United States: Idaho" (www.usminedisasters.miningquiz.com), accessed 3 February 2020.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Cash, Frank E. "Accidents from Hoisting and Haulage at Metal and Nonmetallic Mines" (MI: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955), p. 8.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Unnamed, "Body of Tenth Mine Tragedy Victim Found." Ogden Standard Examiner (Ogden, Utah),7 October 1936.