John E. John
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- Aug 25, 1894Thirty-Seven Miners Died Because They Stayed to Fight the FireA blaze in the Franklin coal mine sent smoke through the gangways on Aug. 24, 1894, killing 37 men and boys who thought they had time to escape.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 27, 1894A Mountain of Coffins: Franklin Buries Its MinersAfter a mine fire killed 37 men, the coal town of Franklin held a day of funerals—five graves at Black Diamond, three Italian miners on a hillside, and widows whose grief doctors feared would kill them.Franklin Cemetery, Black Diamond, WA