Men who survived mine collapse

At 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 28, 1894, twelve miners in Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine were entombed while at work on the fourth level when a room above them collapsed. One of the miners, Peter Gabardi, was caught and crushed to death under the falling mass. However, the eleven miners pictured above were finally rescued between 6 and 7 a.m. Saturday, having been entombed for over 40 hours. Only two men in the back row of this photograph have been positively identified. They are William Beard, at the extreme left, and Peter Hallberg, third from the left. The names of the remaining men are Stephen Allen, John Forrell, Samuel Husband, George Marcous, William Oliver, Thomas Penglase, George Rickard, John Thomas and George Wilcox. In the accounts of the accident in The Range-Tribune and The Current there was confusion with some of the names. Note the “oilers” worn due to wet mining conditions and also the miner’s candlesticks on their hats which were used to light the individual miner’s work area within the mine. [Gene Derwinski/Dick Ferris], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: At 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 28, 1894, twelve miners in Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine were entombed while at work on the fourth level when a room above them collapsed. One of the miners, Peter Gabardi, was caught and crushed to death under the falling mass. However, the eleven miners pictured above were finally rescued between 6 and 7 a.m. Saturday, having been entombed for over 40 hours. Only two men in the back row of this photograph have been positively identified. They are William Beard, at the extreme left, and Peter Hallberg, third from the left. The names of the remaining men are Stephen Allen, John Forrell, Samuel Husband, George Marcous, William Oliver, Thomas Penglase, George Rickard, John Thomas and George Wilcox. In the accounts of the accident in The Range-Tribune and The Current there was confusion with some of the names. Note the “oilers” worn due to wet mining conditions and also the miner’s candlesticks on their hats which were used to light the individual miner’s work area within the mine. [Gene Derwinski/Dick Ferris]
Subject(s): Miners
Mine accidents
Portraits, Group
Iron Mountain (Mich.)
Date Created: 1900 (approximate)
Title: Men who survived mine collapse.
Name(s): Dickinson County Library, contributor
Cummings, William John, contributor
Derwinski, Gene, contributor
Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900 (approximate)
Physical Form: photographs
Extent: 1 item
Abstract/Description: At 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 28, 1894, twelve miners in Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine were entombed while at work on the fourth level when a room above them collapsed. One of the miners, Peter Gabardi, was caught and crushed to death under the falling mass. However, the eleven miners pictured above were finally rescued between 6 and 7 a.m. Saturday, having been entombed for over 40 hours. Only two men in the back row of this photograph have been positively identified. They are William Beard, at the extreme left, and Peter Hallberg, third from the left. The names of the remaining men are Stephen Allen, John Forrell, Samuel Husband, George Marcous, William Oliver, Thomas Penglase, George Rickard, John Thomas and George Wilcox. In the accounts of the accident in The Range-Tribune and The Current there was confusion with some of the names. Note the “oilers” worn due to wet mining conditions and also the miner’s candlesticks on their hats which were used to light the individual miner’s work area within the mine. [Gene Derwinski/Dick Ferris]
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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Subject(s): Miners
Mine accidents
Portraits, Group
Iron Mountain (Mich.)
Held by: Dickinson County Library
Restrictions on Access: No Copyright (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of: Dickinson County Library photographs. Identifier: SLC-005
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