DESERET NEWS, March 8, 1924, Castlegate: The workings of the Castlegate Mine favor escape . . .

The special train from Salt Lake carrying mine and state officials reached the mine at 2:45 p.m. Bishop Benjamin F. Thomas of the Castlegate Ward is one of the men trapped in the mine.No progress had been made at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon toward the rescue of the 175 entombed miners. Hope that any would be taken out alive was gradually waning.

March 10, 1924: Youths, born and raised in Castlegate, sons of coal miners all, together with their fathers, perished in the explosion that caught 175 in mine No. 2 of the Utah Fuel Company Saturday. Records of the company reveal that in seven instances, fathers and sons perished . . .

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For several days, the News recounted the heavy losses of the Castlegate community after a gas explosion in the mine. Lists of the dead filled columns and a history of American mine disasters to that time showed the two most deadly -- the Castlegate tragedy and an earlier one in a Scofield mine that claimed 200 -- were the costliest of all in human lives.

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