90 Day Count Down for I&M Canal Passport Contest
On this day, 107 years ago, 500 men and boys went down to work in a coal mine near the western terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Around lunch,15 year old Matt Francesco pushed a coal car loaded with hay for the mules beneath a kerosene torch. Efforts to put out the fire spread it further instead. The Cherry Mine Disaster claimed 259 lives.
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