Five miles of coal camp, and three explosions that killed 113 men
A coal camp near Evanston, strung along the Bear River for five miles, existing for one reason and named for a coal company clerk. About 4,000 people lived here, and the record of what happened to them is hard reading: an explosion in the Central Pacific Mine in 1881 killed 38 men, the first mine explosion west of the Mississippi; another killed 13 in 1886; and a third, in Red Canyon in 1895, killed 62. Coal built the place and coal is what took the men out of it.
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
