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ABOUT THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN DISASTER The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history happened just before midnight on June 8, 1917 in the Granite Mountain mine shaft. A tragic accident more than 2000 feet below ground began this nightmare for not just the miners in the mine that night, but for the whole town of Butte, Montana. Flames, smoke and poisonous gas shot through the mine shaft and throughout the many tunnels that connected the shaft underground. Within an hour, more than 400 men were trapped below with no known way out; more than 160 men died. Michael Punke tells of that fateful night and the events of this mining town in his book, FIRE AND BRIMSTONE-The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917. |
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