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Osceola Mine Fire Shaft #3 rear view

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents, Fires, Mine Fires, Osceola Mine Fire Shaft #3 rear view [Isler photo showing shaft house, elevated tramroad and smoke billowing.]

Scanned: June 14, 2006


Fire - C & H Mine

Disasters, Fires, Mine Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents, Explosions C & H Mine Fire (Isler photo of Superior engine house explosion]

Scanned: April 27, 2006


Fires

Disasters, Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents Stamp battery at Cliff after the fire. [View of equipment after the fire.]

Scanned: August 4, 2008


Fires

Disasters, Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents Isle Royale after fire of December 24, 1914 at 11:30 p.m. [Image of the rubble after the fire.]

Scanned: August 4, 2008


Fires

Disasters, Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents Isle Royale after fire of December 24, 1914 at 11:30 p.m. [View of the twisted metal of what used to be the interior of the building.]

Scanned: August 4, 2008


Fires

Disasters, Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents Isle Royale after fire of December 24, 1914 at 11:30 p.m. [Image of the twisted remains of the mill.]

Scanned: August 4, 2008


Fires

Disasters, Fires, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents Isle Royale after fire of December 24, 1914 at 11:30 p.m. [Image of the remains of the mill.]

Scanned: August 4, 2008


Fire at No. 6 Shaft, Quincy Mining Company

Buildings, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents, Fires Famed Quincy Shafthouse No. 6 Destroyed by Fire [Image shows flames engulfing structure; only large timbers remain. Pulley stands can be seen at right side of image, built on top of a poor rock pile. Photograph appeared in Daily Mining Gazette story on July 18, 1956, referring to fire on the previous day.]

Scanned: March 5, 2008


Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller

Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons Shown here is the open mine pit into which little Ruth Ann Miller, 7, is reputed to have fallen Saturday while playing and picking strawberries with her brother, Gary, 10. The mile deep vertical shaft is cluttered with debris, assorted timbers and pipes, so that these have to be removed before the improvised skip can be lowered. The cap is shown at left. About half of the slab has been broken to permit search operations. The protective barbed wire fence is revealed enclosing the pit opening. Photo was taken Saturday at 7:00 p.m. while miners and other workmen were readying a big Gundlach crane with extensive cable to act as a hoist engine. Location is near Calumet's Legion Field, about a mile distant from the pit. [Image of the shaft the child fell into.]

Scanned: March 5, 2009


Accidents - Ruth Ann Miller

Accidents, Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Persons Calumet and Hecla Fire Chief Al Beauchene was the first to enter the hole when the department arrived at the site shortly before noon Saturday. Firemen quickly enlarged the hole and used a ladder to allow Beauchene to enter the shaft. It was was determined soon afterward that part of the concrete cap would have to be removed. [Mr. Beauchene is shown at the opening of the pit.]

Scanned: March 5, 2009