Fire and brimstone: the North Butte mining disaster of 1917
✍ Scribed by Michael Punke
- Publisher
- Hyperion;Hachette Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 402 KB
- Edition
- First Hachette books trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1401305717
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The true story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history
The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead.
Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story--striking in its contemporary relevance.
Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte...