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Title
New
Straitsville
steam
rising
from
water
photograph
Subject
New Straitsville (Ohio) -- Photographs
Coal mines and mining
United States. Works Progress Administration
Time Period
1930s
Place
New
Straitsville
(Ohio)
;
Perry
County
(Ohio)
Description
Photograph
of a
man
,
possible
Works
Progress
Administration
(WPA)
employee
,
touching
the
collected
water
where
steam
is
rising
. This
photo
is
from the
small
collection
5676
,
coal
mine
fire
,
New
Straitsville
,
Ohio
.
Photographs
from the
small
collection
5676
document
smoke
rising
from the
underground
fires
,
men
who
were
possibly
employees
of the
WPA
working
to
stop
the
spread
of the
fire
, a
map
of the
territory
affected
by the
mine
fires
and a
street
scene
in
New
Straitsville
,
Ohio
. The
photos
were
taken
March
7
and
8
,
1938
by
Walter
E
.
Burton
. The
mine
fires
are
said
to have
started
November
13
,
1884
,
when
striking
miners
pushed
burning
cars
into a
mine
,
during
a
strike
over
wages
between
the
New
Straitsville
Mining
Company's
management
and
mine
workers
. A
small
group
of
union
members
decided
to
sabotage
the
mines
.
Cars
filled
with
oil-soaked
timber
were
set
on
fire
and were
pushed
into a
mine
owned
by the
New
Straitsville
Mining
Company
. The
fire
quickly
spread
to the
coal
seam
underground
.
Reportedly
, the
coal
seam
was
fourteen
feet
across
and
extended
an
undetermined
distance
into the
Earth
.
It
took
several
days
for the
fire
to be
discovered
. By that
point
,
it
was
too
late
to
stop
the
fire's
spread
. As a
result
of the
fire
, the
mine
closed
. The
New
Straitsville
mine
fire
has
raged
ever
since
1884
. In
1936
, the
WPA
began
work
to
stop
the
spread
of the
fire
by
building
barriers
across
burning
veins
of
coal
. In
1938
,
nearly
350
men
were
employed
on the
project
,
which
then was
estimated
to
cost
less
than
$1,000,000
.
Under
the
direction
of
James
R
.
Cavanaugh
, a
veteran
mine
fire
fighter
,
tunnels
were
driven
through
veins
in the
path
of the
fire
, and were
filled
with a
clay-water
mixture
or
similar
non-burning
material
. The
mines
fires
affected
coal
deposits
in
Hocking
and
Perry
Counties
in
southeastern
Ohio
.
It
was
estimated
that by
1938
the
coal
destroyed
,
more
than
two
hundred
square
miles
, was
worth
fifty
million
dollars
. In
2003
,
smoke
began
to
emerge
from the
soil
of the
Wayne
National
Forest
,
119
years
after
the
fire
began
.
Creator
United
States
.
Works
Progress
Administration
;
Burton
,
Walter
E
.
(photographer)
Date of Original
March
1938
Collection
New
Deal
Source
SC
5676
Submitting Institution
Ohio
Historical
Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
sc5676_07.tif
Digitization Information
600
dpi
Image Height
5068
Image Width
6912
File Size
105119072 Bytes
Format
picture
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