MPR’s Dan Kraker reflects on Minnesota’s worst mining disaster and the efforts to memorialize those lost in the tragedy with a park.

On Febuary 5th, 1924, at the Milford Mine near Crosby, a mine shaft about 170 feet underground collapsed, and mud and water from the swamp above came rushing down. Forty-eight miners scrambled frantically up ladders to escape the flooding tunnels. Fifteen minutes later, the mine was totally submerged, and 41 of those escaping miners were dead.

Awarded:

2018 MNSPJ Page One Award, third place in Radio - Meeting/Planned Event feature category