May is an anniversary month for the town of Fountain and it’s in all their history books for the most explosive of reasons. It’s called “The Blast” and it flattened the little town south of Colorado ...

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Fire was a perennial danger for new mining communities in the Tri-State District as mining camps made the transition from tent cities to frame buildings. I have written of devastating fires that hit ...

Shillong, Feb 5: A devastating dynamite explosion at an unauthorized coal mining site in the Mynsyngat–Thangsko region of Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district resulted in the deaths of four ...