1909 Cherry Mine disaster

Name: 1909 Cherry Mine disaster
Start: 1909

1909 CE.

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The Cherry Mine disaster was a fire which occurred at the Cherry Mine, a coal mine outside Cherry, Illinois, on November 13, 1909. The fire, which killed 259 men and boys as well as three dozen mules, is the third most deadly mine disaster in American coal mining history.

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