#2 North: (Satellite?, motor shaft)
#2 South: (Satellite, main shaft)
Scroll down to "Photographs" in ILmines for several photos of Orient #2.
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| Roger Kujawa posted Orient No. 1 Coal Mine Franklin County IL Illinois 1939. Todd Stevens The interstate exit sign used to not say: West Frankfort Zeigler It used to say: Orient Zeigler David Budka Looks like a small mine-mouth power plant too. I love those little steam or diesel powered self-propelled cranes! |
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| Larry Joe Jenkel posted Orient #1 Mine Franklin County 1913 - 1955. Last production March 1955. Coal seam 6, 9" - 10" thick. Depth 510" to 520" |
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| Larry Joe Jenkel's post got removed before I got the info. I think it was because of someones political comments on the post. Orient #2 |
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| hinton-gen, this page has several interior shots as well Larry Joe Jenkel posted Orient #2 Franklin County, 480 ft to 500 ft depth, 8" to 12.5" thick, 6 seam. 1921 to 1960. Last production was November 30, 1960. Allen Wilson That is where my dad work when it blew up killing 119 men. Steven Kent Allen Wilson that disaster set practice at #3. If the barometer dropped to 29.5 inches. The mine was shut down and everyone when home. The gas behind the seals in the old works escapes to the lower pressure area in the return and caused the explosion at #2. Sad that so many men died... Allen Wilson Steven Kent - dad always said that air pressure was really low. He thought that it was a probability the explosion occurred when a miner snuck into the old works for a smoke. Steven Kent Allen Wilson that was the speculation. That’s why 29.5 became the standard. The pressure was 29.5 when the disaster at #2 occurred |
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| 1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP Orient #1 is near the top. |
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| 1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP Orient #2 north of West Frankfort on the west side. |
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| Roger Kujawa posted Orient No. 2 Bituminous Coal Mine West Frankfort IL Illinois |
If you Google "orient #2 coal mine", there are several articles about a big mine explosion.
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| TheSouthern, photo 26 of 27 Rescue workers pull a miner worker from the Orient No. 2 coal mine in West Frankfor, Ill., Dec. 22, 1951, following an underground methane explosion. The state legislature passed the Illinois Mining Act of 1953, mandating better ventilation in underground mines and better testing for methane, which investigators said was the cause of the blast. |
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| TheSouthern, photo 27 of 27 A miner is pulled from the C.W. & F. New Orient Mine No. 2 at West Frankfort on Dec. 21, 1951, after a methane explosion 500 feet below the surface. More than half of the 200 men working that night at the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal mine were killed in what was Illinois' worst coal-mine disaster since 1909 and the worst in the half-century since. |
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| West Frankfort Quadrangle |
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| 1928 IDOT Map |
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| IC Map |
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| CB&Q Map |
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| C&EI Map |
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| (This photo was supposed to be near the top. But a Google bug put it at the bottom of these notes. Instead of wasting my time working around a bug that I reported weeks ago, I leave the photo here as a monument to Google's bug.) David Cantrell posted Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Company, Mine No. 2, West Frankfort. --1931 Chicago and Eastern Railway Official Directory of Industries |
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| TheSouthern Rescue workers pull a miner worker from the Orient No. 2 coal mine in West Frankfort, Ill., Dec. 22, 1951, following an underground methane explosion. The state legislature passed the Illinois Mining Act of 1953, mandating better ventilation in underground mines and better testing for methane, which investigators said was the cause of the blast. |
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