TitleMen who survived mine collapse
InstitutionDickinson County Library
SubjectMiners
SubjectMine accidents
SubjectPortraits, Group
Item NumberAF01a127
RelationItem 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
DescriptionPhotograph of eleven of the twelve men who were entombed while working on the fourth level of the Pewabic Mine, when a room above them collapsed in 1894. These eleven were rescued after over 40 hours; the twelfth man was crushed to death under the falling mass.
