Joe Dawson
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- Aug 25, 1894The Franklin Mine Fire: Thirty-Seven Dead, Not a Scratch on ThemA fire in breast sixty-two traps miners between flame and return airway; bodies are laid in rows as Seattle sends a special train.Black Diamond, WA
- Aug 26, 1894A Jury Called the Franklin Mine Fire Arson. Thirty-Seven Miners Were Already Dead.A coroner's jury found that someone deliberately set the fire that suffocated 37 workers in the Franklin mine. The only survivor described how one opened door and one stopped fan turned the gangway into a death trap.Black Diamond, WA
- Aug 26, 1894Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From SafetyAn 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.Black Diamond, WA