Eventos
The Palmerton Mill,a large cotton goods factory,collapses without warming,killing an estimated 145 workers and injuring another 166.A flour dust inside the Washburn Mill ignites,casued a explosion and blows the the roof several hundred feet in the air.Two hundred men in a Pleasant Valley Coal Company mine lose their lives when 24 kegs of block powder accidentally expolde.Following a boiler Explosion, the four- story wooden R.B. Grover Company's Shoe factory Collapses and Bursts into flames.An explosion at Fraterville Coal Mine takes the lives of at least 184 men and boys. Due to a build up of methane gas.An underground explosion kills 362 out of the 80 men and boys working that day.60 workers constructing a water intake tunnel a mile offshore die after a powder magazine explodes.A coal mine explosion traps 145 men, more than 80 of whom die.Workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory become trapped after a tossed match ignites an enrmous fire.The stag canon coal mine collapses after a controlled underground detonation sets off large explotion of dust.At a north Butte Mining Company copper mine,a lamp flame sets fire to uncoverd insulation. Killing about 164 menThe Great Molasses Flood, 21 people died and 150 were injured when a storage tank bursted at purity Distilling Company and a giant wave of molasses speeds through the streets of Boston.
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