Start date April 27, 1917 Location Hastings, Colorado | Number of deaths 121 | |
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Similar Castle Gate Mine disaster, Scofield Mine disaster, Darr Mine disaster, Fraterville Mine disaster, 1909 Cherry Mine disa | ||
The Hastings mine explosion was a fire at the Victor American Fuel Company coal mine in Hastings, Las Animas County, Colorado, on April 27, 1917, in which 121 people died. A small monument marks the location, on County Road 44, about 1.5 km west of the Ludlow Monument. In June 1912, twelve miners were killed in an explosion at the same mine.
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