Hanna Basin Museum
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  • Carbon
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    • CARBON CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Carbon Mine Fatality Records
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    • Carbon - Wings of Imagination - A Letter From Old Carbon
    • Carbon - A Poem by Mrs. C. E. Ellis
    • 2003: Carbon Cemetery Restoration
    • 2011: Carbon, Carbon County, Cemetery Restoration 2011
    • 2011: Bow River FFA Community Service Project: Carbon Cemetery
    • 2014: The Carbon Cemetery
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  • Hanna
    • HANNA HAPPENINGS
    • THE HANNA CEMETERY: From the Bottom of the Mine
    • HANNA CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Hanna Burial Plots and Lots >
      • Hanna Blocks and Lots 1 - 6
      • Hanna Plots 1 - 50
      • Hanna Plots 51 - 80
      • Hanna Plots 81 - 129
      • Hanna Plots 130 - 175
      • Hanna Plots 176 - 209
      • Hanna Plots 210 - 298
      • Hanna Plots 299 - 349
      • Hanna Plots 350 - 379
      • Hanna Plots 380 - 419
      • Hanna Plots 420 - 500
    • Hanna Early Churches >
      • Introduction to Hanna’s Early Churches
      • Episcopal Church - History, Bell and Cross
      • Methodist Church - Organ
      • Colored Baptist Church
    • Hanna Military in the Hanna Cemetery >
      • Hanna Cemetery - In The Military
      • Arthurs, Peter Killed in Action World War I
      • Love, Michael V. Killed In The Line Of Duty
      • Jones, William D. Died of Wounds Received In Action World War I
      • Lucas, Bernard R. Killed In Action World War II
      • Lucas, William C. Died of Wounds Recieved In Action World War II
      • Luoma, Arvo A. Killed in Action World War II
      • McAtee, William J. Killed in Action Vietnam
      • Saari, John Killed in Action World War II
    • Hanna Cemetery - Japanese Monuments Transcribed
    • Grave Headstones for Hanna Miner Fatalities Buried Elsewhere than Hanna
    • Hanna Where Did They Come From?
  • The People
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  • Coal Mines
    • A History of the Hanna Coal Miner from 1868 to 2017: Bob Leathers' Notebook
    • Hanna Basin Mining Companies and Mines
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    • 1903 June 30: Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 mine in Hanna >
      • Hanna 1903 Explosion Explained
      • List of Miners Killed in the June 30, 1903 Explosion
      • 1904 State Mine Inspector's Report for 1903 Explosion
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      • 1903 Explosion - Earle Holmes Letter to Wilson Gobble
    • Hanna 1908 Mine Explosions Explained >
      • List of Miners Killed in the March 28, 1908 Explosions
      • 1908 Explosion Coroner's Inquest Report
      • Noah Young's 1908 Hanna Explosion Report to Governor B.B. Brooks
      • 1908 State Coal Mine Inspectors Report - 1908 Hanna Mine Number 1 Explosion
      • David M. Elias - State Mine Inspector Killed in 1908 Explosion
      • 1908 Explosion - Gov. B.B. Brooks Communiations
      • April 3, 1908 Chums From Boyhood Died Side By Side
      • April 16, 1908 U.P. May Not Be Liable
      • 1908: Newspaper Articles from The Wigan Observer in England About the March 28, 1908 Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna
      • Death of Noah Young - State Mine Inspector for the 1908 Explosion of Mine No. 1
    • 1916 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1917 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1970 - 1980: Bill Becker's Hanna Strip Mine Blasting Videos
  • Gallery
    • 1889-1912: ​ Elmer Larson - The Butvier Collection from Sally Hafdell and David Eriksson in Sweden
    • Images from Early Hanna Basin and Wyoming
    • Early History of the Union Pacific Railroad
    • 1910-1920: McNulty Family Photo Collection ​Albert Film - Hanna Basin Adventurer
    • 1920 -1930: Gert Milliken's Photo Collection of Unknown Children, Women, Men, and Families in Hanna
    • 1963 October 2: A Large Cattle Drive from Palm Livestock Company at Elk Mountain ​ to Hanna's Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard
    • 2017 April 18: Un​ion Pacific Steam Engine 844 Stopped at Hanna, Wyoming
    • 2019 May 17 and May 4: Big Boy​ 4014 and Engine 844 Were Running the Rails Again
    • Images of Old Carbon Today
  • Notebook

THE HANNA CEMETERY: From the Bottom of the Mine
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​​Bob Leathers' Notebook


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 Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery Records and Information for the Hanna Basin Museum Website
March 29, 2018 Edition - Last ​Edited May 1, 2018

Website Note: Recently we discovered one more miner killed in the Hanna Basin Mines, making the total 372 not 371. The spreadsheets below have not been corrected, but will be in the near future.  

​Joseph Angwin should be added to the list. He was killed in the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 2 mine in 1913 when a coal car ran over him. He died a week later in the Rawlins hospital.


Click on the blue link to access the information or spreadsheet.
  • Title Page​ for the Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery: From the Bottom of the Mine
  • The Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery: From the Bottom of the Mine - Dedicated to Joyce (While) McCartney
  • The purpose of The Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery Notebook and Thank You
  • Contents for The Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery: From the Bottom of the Mine
  • Introduction to the Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery: Forgotten Family
  • Part 1: The Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery
  • Part 2: Searching for Unmarked Graves in the Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery
  • Part 3 Unmarked Graves in the Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery and the Rasmusson Lawsuit
  • Part 4: ​Japanese Monuments In The Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery Transcribed
  • Part 5: Hanna, Wyoming Cemetery Records
The spreadsheets below are lists of the men killed in the Hanna Basin mines.
​The Hanna Basin includes the towns of Hanna and Elmo, which still exist, along with the coal camps of Carbon, Dana and Sampo, which are now ghost towns.
Tab 1:
 
  • 371 ​Men Were Killed in the Hanna Basin Mines
Tab 2: 
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  • 371 Men Killed in the Hanna Basin Mines Listed by Year of the Fatality
Tab 3:
 
  • 371 ​Men Killed in the Hanna Basin Mines Listed By Age of the Miner
Tab 4:
 
  • 41 of the 371 Men Killed in the Hanna Basin Mines Took Place in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s Carbon Mines
 
  •           14 of the 41 Men Killed in Carbon, Wyoming Occurred in an Unknown Underground Carbon Mine
 
  •            5 of the 41 Men Killed in Carbon, Wyoming Were in the No. 1 Underground Mine
 
  •           15 of the 41 Men Killed in Carbon, Wyoming Were in the No. 2 Underground Mine
 
  •            3 of the 41 Men Killed in Carbon, Wyoming Were in the No. 5 Underground Mine
 
  •            3 of the 41 Men Killed in Carbon, Wyoming Were in the No. 6 Underground Mine
 
  •            1 of the 41 Men Killed in Carbon, Wyoming Were in the No. 7 Underground Mine
Tab 5:
 
  • 2 of the 371 ​Men Killed in the Hanna Basin Mines took Place in the Dana and Miller Underground Mines
Tab 6:
 
  • 328 of the 371 ​Men Killed in the Hanna Basin Mines Took Place in the Hanna, Wyoming Mines
 
  •           249 of the 328 Men Killed Were in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 1 Underground Mine
 
  •           27 of the 328 Men Killed Were in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 2 Underground Mine
 
  •           6 of the 328 Men Killed Were in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 3 Underground Mine
 
  •           2 of the 328 Men Killed Were in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 3.5 Underground Mine
 
  •           24 of the 328 Men Killed Were in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 4 Underground Mine
 
  •           7 of the 328 Men Killed Were in the Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 4A Underground Mine
 
  •           1 of the 328 Men Killed Was in the Carbon County Coal Underground Mine
 
  •           1 of the 328 Men Killed Was Killed in the Cyprus Shoshone Underground Mine
 
  •           1 of the 328 Men Killed Took Place in the Energy Vanguard No. 1 Underground Mine
 
  •           4 of the 328 Men Killed Took Place in the Energy Vanguard No. 2 Underground Mine
 
  •           4 of the 328 Men Killed Took Place in the Rosebud Surface Mine
 
  •           1 of the 328 Men Killed Took Place in the Nugget Surface Mine
 
  •           1 of the 328 Men Killed Took Place in the Medicine Bow Surface Mine
Tab 7:
 
  • 28 of the 328 Men Killed in Hanna, Wyoming Mines Were Not Recovered From The Bottom of the No. 1 Mine
 Tab 8:
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  • 86 of the 328 Men Killed in Hanna, Wyoming Mines Were Buried in Marked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
Tab 9:  

  • 134 of the​ 328 Miners Killed in Hanna, Wyoming Mines Were Buried in Unmarked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
Tab 10:
 
  • 45 of the 328 Men Killed in the Hanna, Wyoming Mines Were Buried in Other Towns Than Hanna
Tab 11: 
 
  • 35 of the 328 Men Killed in Hanna, Wyoming Mines Were Buried in Unknown Towns
Tab 12:
 
  • 322 of the​ 328 Men Killed in Hanna, Wyoming Mines Occurred in Underground Mines
Tab 13:
 
  • 6 of the 328 Men Killed in the Hanna, Wyoming Mines Occurred in Surface Mines
Tab 14:
 
  • 169 of the 328 Men Killed in the Hanna, Wyoming Mines Took Place in the June 30, 1903 Explosion of Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 1 mine
  •           25 of the 169 Men Killed Were African American
  •           1 of the 169 Men Killed Was ​From Belgium
  •           98 of the 169 Men Killed Were ​From ​Finland
  •           1 of the 169 Men Killed Was From ​Germany
  •           3 of the 169 ​Men Killed Were ​From ​Ireland​
  •           11 of the 169 ​Men Killed Were ​From ​​Italy
  •           8 of the 169 Men Killed Were ​From ​Sweden
  •           22 of the 169 Men Killed Were ​From ​the United Kingdom
  •           1 of the 169 Men Killed Was Not Recovered From the Bottom of the Mine
  •           38 of the 169 Men Killed Were Buried in Marked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
  •           110 of the 169 Men Killed Were Buried in Unmarked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
  •           20 of the 169 Men Killed Were Buried in Other Towns than Hanna
Tab 15:
 
  • 59 of the 328 Men Killed in the Hanna, Wyoming Mines Took Place in the March 28, 1908 Explosion of Union Pacific Coal Company’s No. 1 mine.
  •           27 of the 59 Men Killed Were Not Recovered From the Bottom of the Mine
  •           10 of the 59 Men Killed Were Buried in Marked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery​
  •           17 of the 59 Men Killed Were Buried in Unmarked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
  •           5 of the 59 Men Killed Were Buried in Other Towns Than Hanna
  •           18 of the 59 Miners in the Fire Crew Were Killed in the First Explosion
  •                   14 of the 18 Men Killed in the Fire Crew Were Not Recovered From the Bottom of the Mine
  •                   2 of the 18 ​Men Killed in the Fire Crew Were Buried in Marked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
  •                   2 of the 18 Men Killed in the Fire Crew Were Buried in Other Towns Than Hanna
  •           41 of the 59 Men in the Rescue Crew Were Killed in the Second Explosion
  •                  13 of the 41 Men Killed in the Rescue Crew Were Not Recovered From the Bottom of the Mine
  •                  8 of the​ 41 Men Killed in the Rescue Crew Were Buried in Marked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
  •                  17 of the 41 Men Killed in the Rescue Crew Were Buried in Unmarked Graves in the Hanna Cemetery
  •                  3 of the 41 Men Killed in the Rescue Crew Were Buried in Other Towns Than Hanna
Sources
 
Hanna Cemetery Map
 
Hanna Cemetery Unmarked Grave Map

Hanna Union Pacific Coal Company No. 1 Mine Map 

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