Comment on A 1917 coal mine explosion in southern Colorado killed 121. But it’s just a faint memory in the state’s history.

A 1917 coal mine explosion in southern Colorado killed 121. But it’s just a faint memory in the state’s history.

A strike of a match probably led to Colorado’s deadliest disaster. In an instant, the Hastings Mine, outside Trinidad, became a mass grave, leaving 121 men — most of them immigrants from Europe — entombed by an explosion and collapse triggered by a well-respected safety inspector. Just outside the mine’s entrance, groups of children and weeping women crowded around and waited for news of the men.

 

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