Scofield Mine Disaster

This book is filled whit many great photos showing the disaster in Scofield, Utah.  I have included many, but some were too graphic.  All the small images used on the Mine Disaster pages also come from the book, including the background.

• Dedication

• Benefit

• Early Settlement ~ Organization ~ Incorporation

• Petition Signers

• New Town of Scofield

• Biography of Members of Board of Trustees ~ Scofield Town

  • Bedlington E. Lewis

  • Clarence L. Nix

  • Bishop Williams

  • John L. Priece

  • David B. Laughlin

  • James P. Curtin

  • Andrew Smith

  • Lars Jensen

  • H. H. Earll

  • Exploration of Captain Bonneville

• Counties ~ County Seat ~ Representatives

• Diversity of Utah

• May 1st 1900, Number Four Mine, Winter Quarters

• Magnitude of the Calamity, Appalling

• Inquest of John Hunter

• Removing the Dead

• Caskets Deliver to Each Town

• Burial in Coalville and Salt Lake

  • Burial of the Italians at Salt Lake

  • Burial of Chris Johnson

• Ogden, Provo, Springville, and American Fork Burial Services

• Eureka, Richfield, Price, Winter Quarters Burial Services

• Burial Services at Scofield

• Newspaper account of Provo Funerals

• Scofield Mine ~ List of the Dead

• Incidents of Bravery

• Bravery Among the Boys

  • John L. Wilson

  • Phil. Thomas

  • William Clark

  • Willie Davis

  • Thomas Pugh

  • William McIntosh

  • Thomas Bell

  • Robert Forrester

  • Eph Rowe

• Winter Quarters after the Explosion

• Governor and Mine Inspector's Report

• Odd Fellows of Scofield Lodge No. 32

• Institution of Scofield Lodge

• Biographical of Lodge Members (who were miners at Scofield)

  • Charles Edwards

  • William Parmley

  • John James

  • Thomas H. Reilley

  • John & Sandy Wilson

  • David Padfield

  • Robert Menzies

  • W. J. Warner

  • George Fitzsimmons

  • Thomas John Hardee

  • A. J. Wilson

  • William L. Burrows

  • James W. Dilley

• I.O.O.F ~ Resolutions of Condolence

• Aid from Knights of Pythias & A.O.U.W.

  • Frank Mereweather

  • John R. Price

  • Evan Jones

• Beneficiaries Paid through out the United States

• Photo Album ~ Buildings and People

  • Store and Residence of William Samuels

  • Residence of John Pitman

  • Farrish Family Residence

  • Residence of the Jones Family

• Donations Process Begins

• Editorials From Leading Dailies

• Who is Accountable?

• Work of Relief for Destitute Widows and Orphans

• How Scofield Relief Fund Will Be Distributed

Source: History of the Scofield Mine Disaster, by J. W. Dilley, The Skelton Pub. Co., Provo, Utah, 1900.

Editors Note: The I.. O. O. F. were very active in raising money for the benefit of the widows and children along with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This information is included for historical value, it does not mean the people of this project support these institutions.