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be hauled out of the mine. The bodies were taken to the company boarding house to be cleaned up and dressed. They were then taken to the school house, where families anxiously waited to claim their husbands and sons. Many of the dead were laid to rest on May 5, 1900, during two large funerals. Every family in the town of
Scofield was affected. The disaster left 107 widows and 268 fatherless children. In order to bury all of the dead, 75
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126:(primarily carbon monoxide) into Number 1. When the miners inside Number 1 felt the explosion they tried to escape through the most direct route, which happened to be through Number 4. Unaware of where the explosion originated they walked directly into the poisonous gas, and were overcome and killed. Many workers were too far into the mine to escape.
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scattered kegs of powder. The explosion blew up the fan used to ventilate Number 4. However in Number 1 mine which was connected, the fan continued to run and pulled the remnants of the explosion, including
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