{"id":4181,"date":"2018-11-05T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2018-11-05T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:00:29","slug":"this-day-in-history-82-miners-killed-in-millfield-mine-disaster-november-5-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/11\/05\/this-day-in-history-82-miners-killed-in-millfield-mine-disaster-november-5-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History: 82 Miners Killed in Millfield Mine Disaster, November 5, 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4182\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Millfield.jpg\" alt=\"Millfield\" width=\"504\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Millfield.jpg 504w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Millfield-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/>On this day in 1930, at 11:45 a.m., a tremendous explosion rocked the <a href=\"https:\/\/usminedisasters.miningquiz.com\/saxsewell\/millfield_no6.htm\">Sunday Creek \u00a0No. 6 mine<\/a> near Millfield, Ohio, killing 82 coal miners.\u00a0 Most of the miners\u00a0were killed by asphyxiation from the carbon monoxide that resulted from the ignition of methane gas.\u00a0\u00a0A few miners survived by climbing out a ventilation shaft, and an additional 19 miners were rescued 10 hours after the blast. They survived by barricading themselves behind a ventilation partition they had erected to block the carbon monoxide.\u00a0 Ignition of the gas was believed to be caused by an electrical arc between a fallen trolley wire and the rail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A storage room, a pool hall, and the Sunday Creek Coal Company store at Millfield were turned into temporary morgues.\u00a0\u00a0Funeral services were held for the miners on Sunday, November 9, 1930.\u00a0\u00a0As a result of this mine explosion, C. H. Harris stated, &#8220;fifty-nine women were widows and seventy-nine sons and seventy-five daughters of various ages, were made fatherless.\u00a0\u00a0The health of the few who survived was wrecked in a number of cases.\u00a0\u00a0Many families were several times sorrowed \u2014 one mother lost five sons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Burial of the victims was paid by the state, allowing $150 in each case.\u00a0\u00a0Dependents of the miners were compensated at the rate of $18.75 a week until exhaustion of a death claim of $6,500 under the workmen\u2019s compensation law.\u00a0\u00a0By March 1940, the state had paid to the No. 6 miners and dependents a total of $712,391.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The No. 6 mine reopened a month later and operated until 1945.<\/p>\n<p>A monument was erected in 1975 near the disaster site with the names of the men that were lost and the smokestack at Mine No. 6 still stands today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 List of those killed<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4183\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Millfield-names.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Millfield-names.png 586w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Millfield-names-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Ken Ward)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1930, at 11:45 a.m., a tremendous explosion rocked the Sunday Creek \u00a0No. 6 mine near Millfield, Ohio, killing 82 coal miners.\u00a0 Most of the miners\u00a0were killed by asphyxiation from the carbon monoxide that resulted from the ignition of methane gas.\u00a0\u00a0A few miners survived by climbing out a ventilation shaft, and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine-safety"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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