December 4, 1907 Giroux Mining Accidents Ely, Nevada 2 dead 3 trapped December 6, 1907: Monongah Mining disaster in Monongah, West Virginia. Official death toll is 362, but due to inadequate record keeping, the true death toll could be around 500. Victims were mostly Italian immigrant workers, including children. The disaster is considered the worst coal mining accident in American history. 16 December 1907: Yolande mine explosion near Birmingham, Alabama. Fifty-seven killed. December 19, 1907: Darr Mine disaster in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania. 239 workers died, including children. August 18, 1908: Maypole Colliery disaster in Abram, Greater Manchester, England. 75 men and boys died. 28 November 1908: Marianna mine explosion near Marianna, Pennsylvania. 154 men killed, one survivor. November 13, 1909: Cherry Mine disaster in Cherry, Illinois. 259 workers, some as young as eleven, died in this mine fire, which had the most fatalities of any mine fire in the United States. December 21, 1910: The Pretoria Pit disaster in Westhoughton, Lancashire, 344 men and boys lost their lives in this explosion, which is the worst mining disaster on one day in England. April 8. 1911 Banner Mine disaster near Littleton, Alabama. Of the 128 men killed, most were leased Black convicts. 9 December 1911: Cross Mountain Mine disaster killed 84 miners in Briceville, Tennessee August 24, 1911 Giroux Mining Accidents Ely, Nevada 7 dead 2 injured October 14, 1913: Senghenydd colliery disaster, the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom; 439 workers died in Wales. October 22, 1913: Dawson Stag Canon Number 2 Mine disaster, near Dawson, New Mexico, where 263 workers were killed due to illegal use of dynamite. April 28, 1914: The Eccles mine disaster was an explosion of coal-seam, in Eccles, West Virginia. The explosion took the lives of at least 180 men and boys June 8, 1917: Speculator Mine disaster in Butte, Montana. An electric cable being lowered into the mine was accidentally ignited at 2,500 feet below the surface. The fire quickly climbed the cable and ignited the mine's wooden shaft. The shaft became a chimney, eliminating the mine's primary source of oxygen. Nearly all of the 168 fatalities were due to asphyxia, from carbon monoxide poisoning. This is the deadliest underground hard rock mining disaster in United States history. January 12, 1918 Minnie Pit disaster in Staffordshire, England was a coal mining accident in which 155 men and boys died (144 from carbon monoxide