Coal mining; Mine accidents; Disasters; Miners; Coffins; Horses; Carts and wagons; Mine railroads; Stores and shops;
Utah; Carbon County; Winter Quarters
Image shows the Wasatch Store at Winter Quarters where caskets were unloaded and collected after a large mine explosion. Caskets were brought in from Salt Lake City and from Denver.
Winter Quarters was an old mining town near Scofield in Utah's Carbon County. The town is now a ghost town, but is most remembered for a huge explosion in 1900 that lead to the death of nearly 200 miners.
Digital Image (c) 2006 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Utah State Historical Society
Classified Photo Collection, 979.2 Utah Cities
10 inches x 8 inches
Edwards, Robert W.
Image scanned from print on Epson Scanner at TIFF: 800 dpi.
Karl Nicholson and Earl Hindley, Utah State Historical Society