Blue Canyon Mine
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- Apr 10, 1895Fire Damp and Twenty-Three Dead at Blue CanyonA gas explosion in a new coal working near Lake Whatcom kills twenty-three miners and forces a state inspection into what the company knew about the mine’s ventilation.Bellingham, WA
- Apr 11, 1895A Town Buries Its MinersFuneral services for the Blue Canyon mine disaster dead fill Bay View cemetery as a coroner's jury begins asking whether enough air—and enough regulation—reached the men underground.Bellingham, WA
- Apr 11, 1895Twenty-Three Miners Died. An Old Miner Blamed the Air.After an explosion at Blue Canyon in Whatcom County killed 23 men, a veteran miner wrote to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that the mines were not properly ventilated—and that inspectors and bosses ignored miners who knew better.Bellingham, WA