Osceola Fire

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Title: Osceola Fire
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Metal Trade - Copper Industry and Trade - Copper Mines and Mining, Accidents - Fires - Mine Fires,
Condition: Good
Description: Sept. 7 1895 Osceola Fire [Isler photo of large group outside a smoking shaft-rockhouse. In addition to Isler's lable, the negative is imprinted with "Osceola Shaft No. 3, Mine Fire, Sept 7, 1895, 30 Lives Lost."]
Source of Description: Negative Database [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: J. Harry Reeder
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 21.3 cm x 16.3 cm
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MS042-039-T-097
Collection Name: J. Harry Reeder Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• Name:Neil Harri
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They did mispell the Isaac Harri name by adding an O to end.I have seen another list of deaths from this fire where his name was mispelled as Harrer.
2/17/2013 10:06:43 AM by ilmayksi
• My great great grandfather survived this fire. Tried lighting candles but they would not light due to lack of oxygen. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033781/1895-09-13/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1836&index=14&rows=20&words=Harrington+Michael&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Michigan&date2=1922&proxtext=michael+harrington&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
2/4/2016 2:07:37 AM by Anonymous
• Ran across another copy of this photo that may be of better quality. Added to this record as: ACC-03-158D-6-1-04-01-09. [June 10, 2009]
6/10/2009 1:09:43 PM by Christine Holland, Archives
• Do you have names of the miners killed in this fire. I believe my great grandfather, Isaac Harri was one of them. Neil Harri nharri@northpines.net
9/10/2007 10:57:03 PM by Anonymous
• Larry Lankton's book _Cradle to grave : life, work, and death at the Lake Superior copper mines_ (New York : Oxford University Press, 1991) gives a description of this fire on pages 122-124. He indicates that the fire started on September 7, 1895.The annual Mine Inspector's Report for Houghton County for the year ending September 30, 1895 has a long description of this accident as well. It lists a total of 30 men who died:Captain Richard Trembath, Richard Bickle, Thomas Curtis, Alexander Daniel, Richard Grenfell, James Williams, Frank Lander Jr., Michael Johnson, Isaac Harrio, Peter Strandgaard, John Matson, Andrew Rosinski, Michael Schultz, Joseph Rasec, Steve Oriski, Michael Slotta, Joseph Slotta, Mike Voak, Vene Verbenz, Steve Ristivick, Fred C. Peardon, John Cudlip, William Bryant, Barney Hellner, James D. Harrington, Anton Zeswick, William H. Donald, Robert Johns, Peter Malmstrom, and Walter Dahl.
9/12/2007 8:24:15 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist